About Barbara Pell Barbara Pell was professor of English at Trinity Western University and author of Portrait of the Artist: Ernest Buckler’s The Mountain and the Valley and of numerous articles on religion and literature. Books by Barbara Pell Faith and Fiction A Theological Critique of the Narrative Strategies of Hugh MacLennan and Morley Callaghan by (author) Barbara Pell A Portrait of the Artist Ernest Buckler's The Mountain and the Valley by (author) Barbara Pell