Earle Birney
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Earle Alfred Birney (13 May 1904 – September 3, 1995) was a distinguished Canadian poet and novelist who twice received the Governor General's Award, Canada's highest literary award, for his poetry.
Life
Born in Calgary, Alberta, and raised on a farm near Erickson, British Columbia, his childhood was somewhat isolated. Birney went on to college to study chemical engineering, but received a degree in English after working as a farm hand, a bank clerk, and a park ranger. He worked at the University of British Columbia, University of Toronto, University of California, Berkeley, and University of London. He became a Marxist–Leninist during his year in Toronto. He was introduced to Trotskyism via a brief and quickly ended marriage to Sylvia Johnston. He was a leading figure in the Socialist Workers League in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom in the 1930s but had trouble with the Trotskyist position on World War II and left the movement.
He served in the Canadian Army as a staff officer (an expertise he used in his 1949 book, Turvey).
Birney began teaching at the University of British Columbia in 1946, "where he created and directed the first Canadian creative writing program." His work culminated in the establishment of UBC's first Department of Creative Writing.
Birney died of a heart attack in 1995.