born March 20, 1907, Glace Bay, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Can.
died Nov. 7, 1990, Montreal, Que.
Canadian novelist and essayist.
He was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University and earned a doctorate at Princeton, then taught at McGill University (1951–81). His novels include Barometer Rising (1941), Two Solitudes (1945), The Watch That Ends the Night (1959), and Voices in Time (1980). He won five Governor-General's awards for his fiction and nonfiction. He is regarded as the first major English-speaking novelist to use Canadian themes.