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Richler, Jacob
Person · 1968-02-08

Jacob Richler is a Canadian newspaper and magazine journalist, and the son of novelist Mordecai Richler and Florence Isabel (Wood). He was the inspiration for his father's Jacob Two-Two trilogy of children's books. He was born in England and raised in Montreal, where he attended Selwyn House School in Westmount.
He was married to Globe and Mail journalist Leanne Delap, from whom he was divorced in 2005.
Richler was a long-time restaurant reviewer for the National Post, known for his biting, highly critical reviewing style, though he is no longer listed under that newspaper's columnists directory and has not contributed an article to the newspaper since early 2007. Richler has also been a columnist and feature writer for Saturday Night, Financial Post Magazine and Toronto Life, as well as a contributor to GQ, Canadian Living, Fashion, Flare, Maclean's and enRoute. He also collaborated with chef Susur Lee on the book Susur: A Culinary Life. Since 2015, he has been the editor-in-chief of Canada's Best 100, a magazine that releases an annual list of 100 best restaurants in Canada.

Richler, Noah
Person · c1960

Canadian author, journalist, and broadcaster who was raised in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and London, England. He is the son of Canadian novelist Mordecai Richler.
Richler worked for many years as a radio documentary producer for BBC Radio, representing the organization at the Prix Futura and winning a Sony Award before following in his father's footsteps and becoming a writer.
After returning to Canada in 1998, he was the books editor and then the literary columnist for the National Post. His book This Is My Country, What's Yours? A Literary Atlas of Canada won the 2007 British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction. The book is a literary travelogue and cultural portrait of the country, for which he interviewed novelists and storytellers from Newfoundland to British Columbia and the Inuit Arctic. He also produced and presented a ten-part series for the CBC Radio program Ideas based on his research.
He has contributed to numerous publications in Britain, including The Guardian, Punch and The Daily Telegraph, and in Canada, The Walrus, Maisonneuve, Saturday Night, the Toronto Star, and The Globe and Mail.
He lives in Toronto with his wife, House of Anansi Press publisher Sarah MacLachlan. Richler stood as a candidate for the New Democratic Party in the electoral district of Toronto—St. Paul's in the 2015 federal election. He came third as Carolyn Bennett, St. Paul's' long-serving Liberal Member of Parliament, was re-elected. In 2016 he published The Candidate: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, a memoir of his experience on the campaign trail. The book was a shortlisted finalist for the 2016 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing.

Richler, Emma
Person · born 1961

British/Canadian writer. Born in London, England, she is the daughter of author Mordecai Richler. She moved with her family to Montreal, Quebec in 1972. She briefly attended the University of Toronto before transferring to Universite de Provence to complete her education. She first worked as an actress, performing in stage, film and television roles in both Canada and England until 1996, and later worked in publishing before publishing her debut short story collection Sister Crazy in 2001. The book was a shortlisted nominee for the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize in 2002.
Her first novel, Feed My Dear Dogs, was published in 2005. Her second, Be My Wolff, was published in 2017.

Richler, Daniel
Person · born 1957

Canadian arts and pop culture broadcaster and writer. Richler was born in London, England. His biological father is screenwriter Stanley Mann. His mother, Florence Wood, divorced Mann when Daniel was two years old, and married Mordecai Richler in 1960. The family moved back to Montreal, Quebec — the hometown of both Florence and Mordecai — in 1972 when Daniel was 15.
He became a punk rocker as a teenager and was lead singer of the punk rock band Alpha Jerks. He also joined the Ontario biker gang The New Hegelians as an honorary member, despite not actually owning a motorcycle.
From 1977 through the early 1980s, Richler was a deejay, presenter and critic on a variety of major market radio stations including CHOM-FM in Montreal, and CJCL and CFNY-FM in Toronto. In his early radio career, he used his birth name, Daniel Mann, to avoid trading on his stepfather's fame.[3] He also joined the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, where he was a cultural commentator on CBC Radio's Morningside with Peter Gzowski.

Richler, Martha "Marf"
Person · (born October 11, 1964)

Artist and radio presenter. Working for the Evening Standard, she was the first woman to produce a daily cartoon at Associated Newspapers and for London-based newspapers known collectively as "Fleet Street".
Her father is the writer Mordecai Richler and her mother is Florence Richler, who introduced her to art and music. Her pen-name, Marf, also her preferred name on-air.
She hosts a late-night radio show called Night Train, for Radio Winchcombe in Gloucestershire, spotlighting female musicians in the UK. She is an ambassador for The F-List for Music, founded by Vick Bain, supporting female musicians across the UK. Martha Richler produced, wrote, and presented a series in 2022 called Inner Voices for Resonance FM, an innovative radio station supporting new and experimental music. She completed her MA in Radio Production at Birmingham City University, studying with the music documentary maker Sam J. Coley. She holds degrees from Harvard University, Columbia University, New York University, and The Johns Hopkins University, all in art history. She wrote the official guide to The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, before turning to cartooning. She discovered radio and the joys of presenting and researching music in lockdown, 2020, after the loss of her mother in January 2020, who also loved radio. Her cartoons and illustrations for work for the non-partisan UK website called PoliticalBetting.com. and for The Week online, and her work is archived by the British Library and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the Jewish Museum, London. Her work is featured in and her radio shows are archived on Mixcloud.com.

Oates, Joyce Carol
Person · (born June 16, 1938)

American writer: Oates published her first book in 1963, and has since published 58 novels, a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and non-fiction. Her novels Black Water (1992), What I Lived For (1994), and Blonde (2000), and her short story collections The Wheel of Love (1970) and Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories (2014) were each finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. She has won many awards for her writing, including the National Book Award, for her novel them (1969), two O. Henry Awards, the National Humanities Medal, and the Jerusalem Prize (2019).
Oates taught at Princeton University from 1978 to 2014, and is the Roger S. Berlind '52 Professor Emerita in the Humanities with the Program in Creative Writing. Since 2016, she has been a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where she teaches short fiction in the spring semesters.
Oates was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2016.

Person · November 20, 1841 – February 17, 1919

Canadian lawyer, statesman, and politician who served as the seventh prime minister of Canada from 1896 to 1911. The first French Canadian prime minister, his 15-year tenure remains the longest unbroken term of office among Canadian prime ministers and his nearly 45 years of service in the House of Commons is a record for the House. Laurier is best known for his compromises between English and French Canada.

Laurier studied law at McGill University and practised as a lawyer before being elected to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec in 1871. He was then elected as a member of Parliament (MP) in the 1874 federal election. As an MP, Laurier gained a large personal following among French Canadians and the Québécois. He also came to be known as a great orator. After serving as minister of inland revenue under Prime Minister Alexander Mackenzie from 1877 to 1878, Laurier became leader of the Liberal Party in 1887, thus becoming leader of the Official Opposition. He lost the 1891 federal election to Prime Minister John A. Macdonald's Conservatives. However, controversy surrounding the Conservative government's handling of the Manitoba Schools Question, which was triggered by the Manitoba government's elimination of funding for Catholic schools, gave Laurier a victory in the 1896 federal election. He paved the Liberal Party to three more election victories afterwards.

Person · 1916-2016

Margaret (Marmie) Perkins Hess, 1916-2016, was born in Calgary, Alberta to parents Frederick Welker Hess, 1874-1956, and Ina Perkins, ? – 1946. She completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1938 from the University of Toronto. During the Second World War she taught art at the Alberta Provincial Institute of Technology and the Banff School of Fine Arts before completing post-graduate studies at the University of Iowa in 1947.

Marmie’s academic career focused on studying and preserving art, especially Aboriginal art. In 1970, she opened Calgary Galleries Limited. Earlier, in 1952, Marmie acquired the Spencer Creek Ranch and built its reputation as a successful horse breeding and cattle operation. She has made many contributions in the field of education, to environmental causes and community service organizations.

Marmie was named a Member of the Order of Canada in 1982 and an Officer in 1993, has numerous other awards, and holds an Honourary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the University of Lethbridge, and Honourary Doctor of Laws degrees from the University of Calgary and the University of Alberta. She was also made a member of the Alberta Order of Excellence and a Fellow of the Glenbow Museum.