Robertson Davies
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William Robertson Davies, (28 August 1913 – 2 December 1995) was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor.
He was one of Canada's best known and most popular authors and one of its most distinguished "men of letters", an unfashionable term Davies gladly accepted for himself.
Davies was the founding Master of Massey College, a graduate residential college associated with the University of Toronto.
Personal life
Davies was married to Brenda Ethel Davies (1917–2013) in 1940 and survived by four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren from his three daughters Miranda Davies, Rosamond Bailey and author Jennifer Surridge.
Davies never learned to drive. His wife Brenda routinely drove him to events and other excursions.
Awards and recognition
- Won the Dominion Drama Festival Award for best Canadian play in 1948 for Eros at Breakfast.
- Won the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour in 1955 for Leaven of Malice.
- Won the Lorne Pierce Medal for his literary achievements in 1961.
- Won the Governor-General's Literary Award in the English language fiction category in 1972 for The Manticore.
- Short-listed for the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1986 for What's Bred in the Bone.
- Honorary Doctor of Letters, University of Oxford, 1991.
- First Canadian to become an Honorary Member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
- Companion of the Order of Canada.
- Park in Toronto named after him in 2007.