Susanna Moodie, originally named Susanna Strickland, was born on December 6, 1803, and died on April 8, 1885. She was an English-born Canadian author who wrote about her life as a settler in Canada, which was under British rule during her lifetime.
Lucy Maud Montgomery, born on November 30, 1874, and died on April 24, 1942, was a Canadian writer who published books, essays, short stories, and poems. She began writing in 1908 with the novel Anne of Green Gables. Over her lifetime, she wrote 20 novels and more than 1,000 short stories and poems.
Rohinton Mistry was born in 1952. He is a writer who was born in India and now lives in Canada. In 2012, he received the Neustadt International Prize for Literature.
Yann Martel, CC (born June 25, 1963), is a Canadian author who wrote the novel Life of Pi, which won the Man Booker Prize. The book is an international bestseller published in more than 50 territories. It has sold over 12 million copies worldwide and was on the bestseller lists of The New York Times and The Globe and Mail for more than a year, as well as many other lists.
Stephen Butler Leacock was born on December 30, 1869, and died on March 28, 1944. He was a Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humorist. Between 1915 and 1925, he was the most well-known English-speaking humorist in the world.
Jean Margaret Laurence CC (née Wemyss; July 18, 1926 – January 5, 1987) was a Canadian novelist and short story writer. She is an important person in Canadian literature. She also helped start the Writers’ Trust of Canada, a non-profit group that tries to support writers in Canada.
John Hugh MacLennan CC CQ FRSL FRSC was born on March 20, 1907, and passed away on November 9, 1990. He was a Canadian writer and taught English at McGill University. He received five Governor General’s Awards and a Royal Bank Award.
Donald Lamont Jack was born on December 6, 1924, and died on June 2, 2003. He was an English and Canadian novelist and playwright.
Gayleen Froese was born in 1972. She is a Canadian novelist and singer-songwriter. She has written six novels, including two paranormal mystery novels and a series called Ben Ames Casefiles, which are detective stories.
Timothy Irving Frederick Findley was born on October 30, 1930, and passed away on June 20, 2002. He was a Canadian novelist and playwright. People also called him Tiff or Tiffy, which are short for the first letters of his name.