Robertson Davies
William Robertson Davies, CC, OOnt, FRSC, FRSL (August 28, 1913 – December 2, 1995) was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. He was one of Canada's best-known and most popular authors, and one of its most distinguished "men of letters", a term Davies is variously said to have gladly accepted for himself and to have detested. Davies was the founding Master of Massey College, a graduate residential college associated with the University of Toronto.
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... Grant, Judith Skelton, Robertson Davies Man of Myth, Viking, Toronto, 1994 ... ISBN 0-670-82557-3 (hard cover) ISBN 0-14-011452-1 (paperback) ...
... The Enthusiasms of Robertson Davies is a collection of essays by Canadian novelist and journalist Robertson Davies ... reviews and autobiographical essays that Davies had previously published in newspapers and magazines, covering a wide variety of topics ...
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... McClelland and Stewart in 1996, is a collection of writings by Canadian novelist Robertson Davies ... reviews, parodies and essays written over a period from 1980 to 1995, the year of Davies' death ... Davies had planned the volume before his death ...
... The Robertson Davies couplet was originally "Who needs a shave?/He's Robertson Davies!" After the author's death in 1995, the band replaced the word "shave" with "grave." In the album ... Kinsella Margaret Atwood Robertson Davies (mentioned twice in the original version) Michael Ondaatje Doris Lessing The tabloid newspaper, the Toronto Sun, is also mentioned ...
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