Famous Canadian Authors
* Milton Acorn, (1923-1986), poet, has published 18 volumes of poetry
* Gilles Archambault - novelist, essayist, critic
* Margaret Atwood, (born 1939), poet, novelist, essayist
* Margaret Avison, (born 1918), poet, has published 8 volumes of poetry
* Pierre Berton, (1920-2004), popularizer of Canadian history, TV personality, columnist
* Earle Birney, (1904-1995), anti-conventional poet, also wrote novels, short stories, drama
* Bill Bissett, (born 1939), poet, famous for incorporating sound and the visual into poetry |
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* Di Brandt, (born 1952), Manitoba poet and literary critic
* Morley Callaghan, (1903-1990), novelist, short story writer
* Barry Callaghan, (born 1937), author/poet
* Bliss Carman, (1861-1929), poet, wrote Low Tide on Grand Pre
* Roch Carrier, (born 1937), author
* Anne Carson, (born 1950), writer
* Wayson Choy, (born 1939), writer, novelist
* Leonard Cohen, (born 1934), poet/singer
* Douglas Coupland, (born 1961), author
* Robertson Davies, (1913-1995), author
* Timothy Findley, (1930-2002), author
* Diane Francis, (born 1946), author, journalist
* Louis Frechette, (1839-1908), poet, essayist, journalist, dramatist
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Northrop Frye, (1912-1991) literary critic, professor
* Mavis Gallant, (born 1922), author
* William Gibson, (born 1948), author, Neuromancer
* Barbara Gowdy, The Romantic; The White Bone and short stories
* Gwethalyn Graham, (1913-1965), wrote first Canadian novel to top the United States bestseller list
* Arthur Hailey, (born 1920), author of 4 New York Times #1 bestsellers
* G.R. Hambley, (born 1958), poet renowned for "The Passing"
* Louis H mon, (1880-1913), novelist and journalist, Maria Chapdelaine
* Jack Hodgins, writer, novelist
* Nancy Huston, (born 1953), author
* Donald Jack, novelist, playwright
* J. Robert Janes, (born 1932), writer
* Guy Gavriel Kay, fantasy genre fiction
* Naomi Klein, anti-globalization activist
* Gordon Korman, children's author
* Margaret Laurence, (1926-1987), author
* Stephen Leacock, (1869-1944), author/humorist
* Dennis Lee, writer of children's poetry
* A. J. Levin, writer
* Hugh MacLennan, (1907-1990), novelist and essayist, wrote Two Solitudes and Barometer Rising
* Alistair MacLeod, (born 1936), writer, novelist
* Yann Martel, (born 1963), 2002 Booker Prize Winner
* John Metcalf, writer
* Rohinton Mistry, (born 1952), author
* W.O. Mitchell, author, Who has Seen the Wind
* Lucy Maude Montgomery, (1874-1942), Anne of Green Gables
* Susanna Moodie, (1803-1885), Roughing it in the Bush
* Farley Mowat, (born 1921), Never Cry Wolf, My Discovery of America
* Alice Munro, (born 1931), short story writer
* Robert Munsch - American-born writer of children's books
* Michael Ondaatje, (born 1943), author
* Jean Baptiste Proulx, (1846-1904), dramatist and essayist
* Nino Ricci, (born 1959), novelist; winner of the 1990 Governor General's Award for Fiction
* David Adams Richards, (born 1950), writer, novelist
* Mordecai Richler, (1931-2001), author
* Sinclair Ross, author, As for Me and My House
* Gabrielle Roy, (1909-1983), author
* Robert W. Service, Author, "The Shooting of Dan McGrew", "The Cremation of Sam McGee","Songs of a Sourdough"
* Carol Shields, (1935-2003), author
* Elizabeth Smart, Author, "By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept"
* Samuel Strickland, (1804-1867), Twenty-seven Years in Canada West
* Catharine Parr Traill, (1802-1899), Life in the Backwoods of Canada
* Michel Tremblay, (born 1942), author, playwright, poet
* Jane Urquhart, (born 1949), novelist
* George Woodcock, (1912-1995), poet, critic and anarchist author of Anarchism
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