Robertson Davies: Magician of Words

by Nicholas Maes

Book Overview

Born in Thamesville, Ontario, a student at Queen's University in Kingston in the 1930s, and editor and later publisher of the Peterborough Examiner from the 1940s to the mid-1960s, playwright, essayist, critic, professor, and novelist Robertson Davies (1913-1995) was one of Canada's pre-eminent literary voices for more than a half-century.

Davies, with his generous beard and donnish manner, was the very epitome of the "man of letters," a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550028723
• ISBN13: 9781550028720
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Dundurn Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.3"