Hugh MacLennan

Hugh MacLennan (1907-1990), born in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, the son of a Presbyterian mine doctor, was ten at the time of the Halifax explosion, which he would later recount. He studied classics at Dalhousie, then at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, and defended at Princeton a thesis on Roman Egypt. With no university post available during the Depression, he taught at a Montreal school until 1945, tried to live by his pen, then taught at McGill until retirement. Winner five times of the Governor General's Literary Award, a record equalled in 2007, he died in Montreal.

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