This in-depth collection includes biographies of Milton Acorn, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Avison, Earle Birney, bill bissett, George Bowering, William Wilfred Campbell, Bliss Carman, Leonard Cohen, Isabella Valancy Crawford, Louis Dudek, Robert Finch, Ralph Gustafson, Charles Heavysege, D. G. Jones, Leo Kennedy, A. M. Klein, Raymond Knister, Robert Kroetsch, Archibald Lampman, Patrick Lane, Irving Layton, Dennis Lee, Dorothy Livesay, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Jay Macpherson, Eli Mandel, Daphne Marlatt, Charles Mair, John Newlove, bpNichol, Alden Nowlan, Michael Ondaatje, P. K. Page, E. J. Pratt, Al Purdy,James Reaney, Charles G. D. Roberts, Joe Rosenblatt, W.W.E. Ross, Charles Sangster, D. C. Scott, F. R. Scott, A. J. M. Smith, Raymond Souster, Miriam Waddington, Phyllis Webb, and Anne Wilkinson.

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“These books are ideal reference tools for the small but growing reference collection on Canadian studies.” —American Reference Books Annual

“The biographies run about 1,000 to 2,000 words and are cleanly laid out and serviceable, with the authors portrayed in head-and-shoulder drawings. The writers of these biographies are often the top scholars in the field—Linda Hutcheon on Leonard Cohen, Peter Buitenhuis on E. J. Pratt—and so the calibre of writing and commentary is high.” —Canadian Materials