This comprehensive collection includes biographies of Margaret Atwood, Clark Blaise, Frances Brooke, Ernest Buckler, Morley Callaghan, Leonard Cohen, Matt Cohen, Ralph Connor, Robertson Davies, Sara Jeannette Duncan, Marian Engel,Mavis Gallant, Hugh Garner, Dave Godfrey, Frederick Philip Grove, Thomas Haliburton, Robert Harlow, Jack Hodgins, Hugh Hood, William Kirby, Raymond Knister, Robert Kroetsch, Margaret Laurence, Stephen Leacock, Norman Levine, Hugh MacLennan, John Metcalf, W. O. Mitchell, Susanna Moodie, Alice Munro, Martha Ostenso, Gilbert Parker, Thomas Raddall, John Richardson, Mordecai Richler, Charles G. D. Roberts, Leon Rooke, Sinclair Ross, Ernest Thompson Seton, Robert Stead, Audrey Thomas, Catharine Parr Traill, Sheila Watson, Rudy Wiebe, Ethel Wilson, Adele Wiseman, and other writers of the 19th century.

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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 Guide's entries are informative, and the book is a fine introduction to the lives of most English-Canadian novelists.” —World Literature Today

“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