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Hugh MacLennan

Born in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Hugh MacLennan (1907-1990) taught at McGill University from 1951 to 1981 and wrote novels and essays that helped define Canadian literature. His novels include Barometer Rising (1941), Two Solitudes (1945), Each Man's Son (1951), The Watch That Ends the Night (1959), Return of the Sphinx (1967), and Voices in Time (1980). He also published several nonfiction works, including Cross Country (1949), Thirty and Three (1955), The Scotchman’s Return and Other Essays (1960), and The Colour of Canada (1967).

Books by Hugh MacLennan

The Return of the Sphinx

Man Should Rejoice, by Hugh MacLennan

Each Man's Son

Two Solitudes

Two Solitudes

Barometer Rising

McGill

The Precipice

Voices in Time

Watch that Ends the Night

The Watch that Ends the Night

Return of the Sphinx

Barometer Rising