William Arthur Deacon: A Canadian Literary Life

by Clara Thomas and John Lennox

William Arthur Deacon was an intellectual patron and prophet in Canadian writing. For forty years, as literary editor of Saturday Night (1922-8), The Mail and Empire (1928-36), and The Globe and Mail (1936-60) he contributed vast amounts of time and energy to building a readership and a sympathetic climate for Canadian writers and writing. His correspondence put him in touch, as no other reviewer before him, with virtually every English- and French-Canadian...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1487585063
• ISBN13: 9781487585068
• Release Date: December 1982
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher