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2015., Adult, McClelland & Stewart Call No: Bio D255s Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Robertson Davies (1913-1995) had a remarkable literary career that extended through the entire second half of the twentieth century. After university in Canada and at Oxford, Davies had begun working in British theatre, but with the outbreak of war in 1939 he returned to Canada where he established himself as an outstanding editor, columnist and literary critic, and as an increasingly prominent playwright and novelist. Tall, ample, and bearded, with a richly developed theatrical voice, he had an imposing and distinctive appearance that made him seem older than he was. His rather magisterial presence hid well the mixture of ambition, anxieties, and insecurities, and often conflicting perceptions and emotions that all bubbled furiously within and that are recorded in the diaries. Chronicling his time as editor of the Peterborough Examiner, his role as the founding master of Massey College, and most of all his life as a writer, from the failure of a play in New York to the beginnings of an idea for a novel that would become Fifth Business."--Provided by publisher.
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c1989., University Press of Mississippi Call No: 818.54 C766 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Literary conversations series
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c1977., Gage Educational Publishing Call No: 812.5 M864r Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Profiles in Canadian drama
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c2009., Dundurn Press Call No: Bio D257m Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Quest library.
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-- Storytellers :c2011., ECW Press Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: Spotlighting an extraordinary career, this autobiography reviews the authorœs accomplishments workingand playingalongside some of Canadaœs greatest writers. These humorous chronicles relate the projects he brainstormed for writer Barry Broadfoot, how he convinced eventual Nobel Prize contender Alice Munro to keep writing short stories, his early morning phone call from a former Prime Minister, and his recollection of yanking a manuscript right out of Alistair MacLeodœs own reluctant handswhich ultimately garnered MacLeod one of the worldœs most prestigious prizes for fiction. Insightful and entertaining, this collection of tales provides an inside view of Canadian politics and publishing that is rarely revealed, going behind the scenes and between the covers to divulge a treasure trove of literary adventures.
![Stories about storytellers [eBook] : publishing Alice Munro, Robertson Davies, Alistair MacLeod, Pierre Trudeau, and others](/Library/images/~imageCT75975.JPG "Stories about storytellers [eBook] : publishing Alice Munro, Robertson Davies, Alistair MacLeod, Pierre Trudeau, and others")
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-- Storytellers :c2011., ECW Press Call No: 070.92 G449s Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Spotlighting an extraordinary career, this autobiography reviews the authorœs accomplishments workingand playingalongside some of Canadaœs greatest writers. These humorous chronicles relate the projects he brainstormed for writer Barry Broadfoot, how he convinced eventual Nobel Prize contender Alice Munro to keep writing short stories, his early morning phone call from a former Prime Minister, and his recollection of yanking a manuscript right out of Alistair MacLeodœs own reluctant handswhich ultimately garnered MacLeod one of the worldœs most prestigious prizes for fiction. Insightful and entertaining, this collection of tales provides an inside view of Canadian politics and publishing that is rarely revealed, going behind the scenes and between the covers to divulge a treasure trove of literary adventures.
