An alphabetical list of
Canadian Literary[?] figures, including
poets,
novelists,
children's writers[?],
essayists, and
scholars.
- Milton Acorn (1923-1986) poet, has published 18 volumes of poetry
- Ian Adam (1937- )
- Linda Aksomitis[?] (nee Demyen) (1951?- ) novels, travel, poetry under pseudonym Sunflower Sue, manual for use of serger.
- Charlotte Vale Allen[?] (a.k.a. Katherine Marlowe) (1941- ) romantic novels, expert on child abuse
- Grant Allen, (1848-1899), The Woman Who Did
- Sidney Allinson[?]
- George Amabile, (born 1936)
- Rod Anderson[?]
- Hubert Aquin[?] (1929-1977) modernist[?] Quebecois novelist
- Gilles Archambault
- Jeannette Armstrong[?]
- David Arnason
- Margaret Atwood, (1939- ) The Handmaid's Tale (1985), Alias Grace, Surfacing
- Margaret Avison (1918- ) poet, has published 8 volumes of poetry
- Phillipe-Ignace Francois Aubert du Gaspe[?] (1814-1841), author of the first French Canadian novel.
- D.F. Bailey[?]
- Himani Bannerji[?]
- Volodimir Barabash[?]
- Bruce Barber[?]
- Steve Bareham[?]
- Gary Barwin
- Ronald Bates[?]
- Bill Bauer
- Nancy Bauer
- Henry Beissel, (born 1929)
- William Bell
- Nigel Bennett[?]
- Pierre Berton, (1920- ) prolific author of Canadian History, journalist and TV personality, popularizer of Canadian history
- Dennison Berwick, (1956 - ), literary travel author now working in fiction
- Gerard Bessette (1920- ) Quebecois author
- Carol Biberstein, children's book Great Grandma's Rocking Chair
- Sandra Birdsell, (born 1942), has published 3 works of short fiction and 3 novels, wrote The Two-Headed Calf
- Earle Birney[?] (1904-1995) anti-conventional poet, also wrote novels, short stories, drama
- Bill Bissett (1939- ) poet, famous for incorporating sound and the visual into poetry
- Neil Bissoondath (1955- )
- Marie-Claire Blais[?]
- Clark Blaise, (born 1940)
- Christian Bok, (born 1966), author of Eunoia
- Stephanie Bolster[?]
- Roo Borson, (born 1952)
- Nidholas Boving[?]
- George Bowering (1935- )
- Marilyn Bowering
- David Boyd
- George Elroy Boyd[?]
- Catherine Bradford[?]
- Karleen Bradford
- Max Braithwaite[?] (1911-1995) prairie depression era fiction
- Dionne Brand
- Di Brandt (1952 - ) Manitoba poet and literary critic
- Jaques Brault (1933- )
- Brian Brett
- Robert Bringhurst
- David Bromige
- Bertram Brooker[?] theosophist painter
- Nicole Brossard (1943- ) formalist poet[?]
- Robert Budde
- Margaret Buffie
- Bonnie Burnard
- Mick Burrs
- Sharon Butala ([[1940- )
- Anthony M. Buzzelli[?]
- Morley Callaghan (1903-1990) novelist and writer of short fiction, wrote A Fine and Private Place
- Silver Donald Cameron[?] (1937- )
- Phil Campagna[?]
- Bliss Carman (1861-1929) poet, wrote Low Tide on Grand Pre
- David Carpenter
- Roch Carrier (1937- ) French-Canadian novelist and writer of short fiction, wrote La Guerre? Yes sir? also landmark childerns story The Sweater
- Anne Carson, (born 1950)
- Gillian Chan
- Wayson Choy (1939- )
- Leslie Choyce
- Greg Clark[?] (1892-1977)
- Austin Clarke
- George Elliott Clarke poet, U of T professor
- Lynn Coady
- Leonard Cohen, (born 1934), poet and singer
- Matt Cohen[?] (1942- )
- Helena Coleman[?]
- Karen Connelly
- Ralph Conner (AKA Charles William Gordon)[?], The Man from Glengarry, Glengarry School Days.
- Hugh Cook
- Michael Cook[?]
- Dennis Cooley
- Doug Cooper[?]
- John Paul Copeland[?]
- Douglas Coupland, (born 1961), Generation X, Girlfriend in a Coma
- Isabella Valancy Crawford[?]
- Claude Cremazie[?] (1827-1879)
- Lynn Crosbie daring prose stylist
- Lorna Crozier
- Peter Cummings[?]
- Alan Cumyn
- Richard Cumyn
- Herb Curtis
- Leona Czwartkowski[?]
- Annie Charlton Dalton[?]
- Frank Davey
- Robertson Davies, (1913-1995) wrote Fifth Business (1970), publisher, professor, journalist
- Mazo de la Roche[?], Jalna saga
- Sandra Dempsey[?]
- Barry Dempster
- Alexander Dewdney computer science and philosophy
- Christopher Dewdney
- Don Domanski
- Heather Down[?]
- Candas Dorsey
- William Henry Drummond[?], (1854-1907), poet, The habitant
- Réjean Ducharme
- Dave Duncan
- Margaret Dyment[?]
- C. J. Everon, (born 1971), historian and novelist: Justice Better Attained
- Edmundo Farolan[?]
- Brian Fawcett
- Trevor Ferguson
- B.K. Filson[?]
- Timothy Findley, (1930-2002), Pilgrim
- Sheree Fitch[?]
- Judith Fitzgerald[?]
- Barbara Fletcher[?]
- Cecil Foster[?]
- Tess Fragoulis[?]
- Raymond Fraser author of "Rum River", Costa Blanca", etc.
- Louis Fréchette[?], (1839-1908), poet, essayist, journalist, dramatist
- Patrick Friesen[?]
- Robert Froetsch[?]
- Northrop Frye, (1912-1991), influential critic, Shakespeare and Blake scholar
- Robert Fulford[?] autodictat, journalist
- Nicola Furlong[?]
- James V. Fusco[?]
- Grover Gall[?]
- Mavis Gallant, (1922- )
- Saint-Denys Garneau[?]
- Margaret Gibson[?]
- William Gibson (1948-) Pioneering cyberpunk author, Neuromancer, All Tomorrow's Parties
- Joanna Glass[?]
- Jacques Godbout[?]
- David Godfrey[?]
- Leona Gom[?]
- Hiromi Goto[?]
- Katherine Govier[?]
- Barbara Gowdy The Romantic; The White Bone and short stories
- Neile Graham[?]
- John Grey[?]
- Frederick Phillip Grove[?]
- Richard Grove[?]
- Genni Gunn[?]
- Joan Haggerty[?]
- Roderick Haig-Brown[?]
- Arthur Hailey, (1920- )indefatigable researcher, author of Hotel (1965), Airport (1968)
- Thomas Chandler Haliburton way old humorist: Uncle Sam beard puller, author of The Clockmaker series
- Jane Hamilton[?]
- Claire Harris[?]
- Marjorie Harris[?]
- Elisabeth Harvor[?]
- Barbara Haworth-Attard[?]
- Anne Hebert[?], Acadian author, educator Kamouraska
- Louis Hémon[?] - (1880-1913), novelist and journalist, Maria Chapdelaine
- John Herbert[?]
- Thomson Highway[?] native playwright Dry Lips Moved to Kapuskasing
- Robert Hilles[?]
- Jack Hodgins
- Greg Hollingshead[?]
- Hugh Hood[?] Montreal Anglo poet. Master work is 10 volume novel.
- Cornelia Hoogland[?]
- Jan Horner[?]
- Harold Horwood[?]
- Matt Hughes[?]
- Bruce Hunter[?]
- Catherine Hunter[?]
- Maureen Hunter[?]
- Nancy Huston, (1953- )
- Hazel Hutchins[?]
- Bruce Hutchison[?]
- Michael Ignatieff[?]
- Susan Ioannou[?]
- Joan Irvine[?]
- Donald Jack[?]
- J. Robert Janes, (born 1932)
- K.V. Johansen[?]
- Pauline E. Johnson[?]
- Andy Jones[?] comedic playwright and performer
- Terry Jordan[?]
- John Joyce[?]
- Surjeet Kalsey[?]
- Smaro Kamboureli[?]
- Welwyn Wilton Katz[?]
- Guy Gavriel Kay fantasy genre fiction
- Lionel Kearns[?]
- Adam Kidd[?]
- Crawford Kilian[?]
- Crad Kilodney[?] american born misanthrope and self published author
- W.P. Kinsella[?] writes novels about baseball and natives Field of Dreams
- Thomas King[?]
- Alex Kizuk[?]
- Raymond Knister[?]
- Joy Kogawa[?], Obasan
- Lawrence Kootnikoff[?]
- Myrna Kostash[?]
- Henry Kriesel[?]
- Robert Kroetsch[?]
- Robert N.Kucey, (1940- )
- Tim Lander[?]
- Patrick Lane[?]
- Evelyn Lau[?] bitter ex-hooker, bitter ex of W.P. Kinsella
- Margaret Laurence[?] (1926 - 1987) novelist, wrote "The Stone Angel"
- Irving Layton[?] sex machine poet!
- Stephen Leacock, (1869-1944), McGill University economics and poltical science prof. text book writer and intenational renowned humorist
- Dennis Lee[?] - writer of children's poetry
- Sky Lee[?]
- Mark Leiren-Young[?]
- John Lent[?]
- Dorothy Livesay[?]
- Malcolm Lowry, (1909-1957) wrote Under the Volcano in Canada (1947)
- Agnes Maule Machar[?]
- Ann-Marie MacDonald[?]
- Bernell MacDonald, (1966-1996)
- Hugh MacDonald
- Jake MacDonald[?]
- Gwendolyn MacEwen[?]
- Isabel Ecclestone Mackay[?]
- Hugh MacLennan (1907 - 1990) novelist and essayist, wrote Two Solitudes and Barometer Rising
- Alistair MacLeod, (1936- )
- Antonine Maillet[?], Acadian author, educator
- Kevin Major[?]
- Eli Mandel[?]
- Miriam Mandel[?]
- Lee Maracle[?]
- Daphne Marlatt[?]
- John Marlyn, (1912-1985)
- David Margoshes[?]
- Nicole Markotic[?]
- Yann Martel, (born 1963), 2002 Booker Prize Winner
- Carol Matas[?]
- Shirlee Smith Matheson[?]
- Steve McCaffery[?]
- Nellie McClung[?] crusanding journalist, MP,
- John McCrae, (1872-1918), ("In Flanders' Fields")
- David McFadden[?]
- James McIntyre, (1827-1906), the "Cheese Poet," known as the worst poet in Canadian history
- Don McKay[?] poet
- Rhonda McLean[?]
- Marshall McLuhan, (1911-1980), English professor and media studies author.
- Susan McMaster[?]
- Robert McNeil[?]
- Sylvia McNicoll[?]
- John Metcalf
- Anne Michaels[?]
- Christine Michels[?]
- Roy Miki[?]
- Rohinton Mistry, (born 1952), Such a Long Journet, A Fine Balance
- jane Mitchell[?]
- Jared Mitchell[?]
- W.O. Mitchell Who has Seen the Wind
- Lucy Maude Montgomery, (1874-1942) = Anne of Green Gables
- Susanna Moodie[?] (nee Strickland), (1803-1885), Roughing it in the Bush
- Brian Moore[?]
- Keith Moreau[?], (born 1951), writer and illustrator of children's books like ABC Fun Things Book[?]
- Edythe Morahan de Lauzon, poetess
- Bernice Morgan[?]
- Kim Morrisse[?]
- Colin Morton[?]
- Daniel David Moses[?]
- Tara Moss[?] (1973- ) - wrote Fetish
- Erin Moure[?]
- Farley Mowat, (1921- ) Never Cry Wolf, My Discovery of America
- Karen Mulholland[?]
- Robert Munsch[?] - American born writer of children's stories
- Allison Muri[?]
- Alice Munro[?], (1931- )
- John Murrell[?]
- Jai Murugan[?]
- Susan Musgrave[?] Poet. Married for love.
- Brian Nation[?]
- Émile Nelligan[?], (1879-1941), French-Canadian poet
- John Newlove[?]
- George D. Nicholls[?]
- Kimberlley Nickmann[?]
- bpNichol poet
- James Norman[?]
- Alden Nowlan[?]
- Sheldon Oberman[?]
- Michael Ondaatje, (1943- ) wrote The English Patient (1993)
- P.K. Page[?]
- Len Peterson[?]
- Marjorie Pickthall[?]
- Ted Plantos[?]
- Simone Poirier-Bures[?]
- Daniel Poliquin[?]
- Sharon Pollock[?]
- Jacques Poulin[?], "The "Jimmy" Trilogy" (translated titled)
- E.J. Pratt[?] poet
- Robert Priest[?] poet
- E. Annie Proulx[?] The Shipping News
- Jean Baptiste Proulx[?], (1846-1904), dramatist and essayist
- Al Purdy[?] poet
- Darlene Quaife[?]
- Paul Quarrington[?]
- Gurcharan Rampuri[?]
- Nino Ricci[?]
- David Adams Richards, (1950- )
- Mordecai Richler, (1931-2001) The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959)
- Gwen Pharis Ringwood[?]
- Sir Charles G.D. Roberts[?] author of a number of "animal stories"
- Ken Roberts[?]
- Paul William Roberts[?]
- Spider Robinson American born Science-Fiction/humour writer, "Callahan's Crosstime Saloon"
- Don Rogalski[?]
- Linda Rogers[?]
- Leon Rooke[?]
- Sinclair Ross[?] renowned short story author
- Gabrielle Roy, (1909-1983)The Tin Flute
- George Ryga[?]
- Rick Salutin[?] political writer, essayist editor
- John Ralston Saul businessman, essayist, diplomat
- Robert J. Sawyer[?]
- Andreas Schroeder[?]
- Alvin Schwartz
- Shyam Selvadurai[?]
- Robert Service[?] poet of the Yukon
- Mark Shainblum[?]
- Murphy O. Shewchuk[?]
- Carol Shields, (1935- )
- Marsha Skrypush[?]
- Joseph Skvorecky[?] Chekoslovakian born Canadian novelist, English professor
- Beverly Slopen[?]
- Esta Spalding[?]
- Elizabeth Smart, (1913-1986)
- Russell E. Smith[?]
- Taylor Smith[?]
- Brik Sproxton[?]
- Richard Stevenson[?]
- Kathy Stinson[?]
- Anne Stone[?]
- Samuel Strickland[?], (1804-1867) Twenty-seven Years in Canada West
- Rita Summers[?]
- james L. Swanson[?]
- Robert Sward[?]
- Mark Swartz[?]
- George Swede
- Anne Szumigalski[?]
- Kevin Taylor[?]
- Sharon Thesen[?]
- Audrey Thomas[?]
- John Thompson
- Elizabeth Thornton[?]
- Catherine Parr Traill[?] (nee Strickland), (1802-1899) Life in the Backwoods of Canada
- Rhea Tregebov[?]
- Michel Tremblay, (born 1942)
- Dietmar Trommeshauser[?]
- Maxine Trottier[?]
- Stuart Douglas Trueman[?]
- Elise Turcotte[?]
- Michael Turner[?]
- Jane Urquhart, (1949- ) novelist
- W.D. Valgardson[?], The Girl with the Bottecelli Face
- Edo Van Belkom[?]
- Guy Vandergaeghe[?]
- Kees Vanderhayden[?]
- Brain Vanderlip[?]
- Aritha Van Herk[?]
- M.G. Vassanji[?]
- David Watmough[?]
- Fred Wah[?]
- Bronwen Wallace[?]
- Ted Warnell[?]
- Alison Wearing[?]
- Rudy Weibe[?]
- John Weier[?]
- Elizabeth Wellburn[?]
- Frank Westcott[?]
- Mavis West[?]
- Thomas Wharton[?]
- Diana Wieler[?]
- Ethel Wilson[?], Swamp Angel, Hettie Dorval, "The Window"
- Rob Winger[?]
- Beverly Wood[?]
- George Woodcock, (1912-1995), poet, critic and anarchist author of Anarchism
- Patrick Woodcock[?]
- lance Woolaver[?]
- L.R. Wright[?]
- Robert L.J. Zenik[?]
- Jan Zwicky[?]
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