Canadian author. Born on a homestead farm near Fairview, Alta., M. Jakober obtained her early education through correspondence courses, later attending high school in Edmonton and graduating from Carleton University. Her published work includes eight novels, poetry and short stories published in Canada and abroad. At age twelve, the author won her first award, a prize for poetry in the International Children's Competition, winning the gold medal in the same competition the following year. A third-place finisher for her novel The mind gods in the 1974 Search-For-A-New-Novelist Competition, M. Jakober won the George Bugnet Award for Fiction (Novel) for Sandinista in 1985 and for Sons of Liberty in 2005, and the Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction for Only Call Us Faithful in 2002.
Canadian poet, author and educator Alfred Earle Birney was born May 13, 1904 in Calgary, Alberta (then the Northwest Territories). Died September 3, 1995. Biographical information available in The Oxford companion to Canadian literature, 2nd ed., p. 122-123; and in Earle Birney : a life, by Elspeth Cameron (Toronto: Viking, 1994).
British army officer. Brigadier General M.L. Hornby, a career army officer, retired in 1927 to a farm near Lethbridge, Alta., where he devoted himself to promoting British immigration to the colonies, in particular Canada.
Canadian author. Born in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, on March 20, 1907. Died on November 7, 1990. Biographical information available in The Oxford companion to Canadian literature, 2nd ed., p. 705-707; and in Hugh MacLennan : a writer's life / by Elspeth Cameron (Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1981).
Canadian literary critic, editor and educator Malcolm MacKenzie Ross was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, on January 2, 1911. Died in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on December 4, 2002. Biographical information available in Encyclopedia of literature in Canada, p. 989.
Renée L. Paris was literary agent for George Ryga from 1969 to 1976.
British literary critic and author John Middleton Murry was born on August 6, 1889, in London, England. Died in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England on March 31, 1957. Biographical information available in The Oxford companion to English literature. 5th ed., p. 681.
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Canadian journalist, author and editor Bruce Hutchison was born June 25, 1901 in Prescott, Ontario. Died 1992 in Victoria, British Columbia. Biographical information available in The Oxford companion to Canadian literature, 2nd ed., p. 566.