Literary Library

Anne Hebert

August 1, 1916 - January 22, 2000Canadian novelist, poet, playwright and short-story writerAuthor of "Le Torrent", "Kamouraska" and "In the Shadow...

Douglas Coupland

December 30, 1961 - Canadian novelist, designer, visual artist and newspaper columnistAuthor of "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture", ...

Kevin Patterson

December 27, 1964 - Canadian medical doctor and writerAuthor of "Country of Cold" (for which he won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize in 2003...

Elizabeth Smart

December 27, 1913 - March 4, 1986Canadian poet and novelistAuthor of "By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept", "In the Meantime" and "Ten Po...

Sheila Heti

December 25, 1976 - Canadian playwright, short story writer and novelistAuthor of "The Middle Stories", "How Should a Person Be?" and "Motherhood"

Stillman Drake

December 24, 1910 - October 6, 1993Canadian historian of sciencePublished over 130 books as articles on Galileo Galilei including "Discoveries and ...

Charles de Lint

December 22, 1951 - Canadian writer of novels, novellas, essays, short stories, poetry and lyricsAuthor of "Moonheart", "Dreams Underfoot" and "Tha...

Wade Davis

December 14, 1953 - Canadian anthropologist, author and photographerAuthor of "The Serpent and the Rainbow", "One River" (for which he was nominat...

Ross MacDonald

December 13, 1915 - July 11, 1983American-Canadian writer of crime fictionAuthor of "The Moving Target", "The Goodbye Look" and ""The Blue Hammer"...

Robert Lepage

December 12, 1957 - Canadian playwright, actor, film director and stage directorAuthor of "The Seven Streams of the River Ota", "The Far Side of t...

Tomson Highway

December 6, 1951 - Indigenous-Canadian playwright, novelist and children's book authorAuthor of "Kiss of the Fur Queen", Caribou Song" and From Or...

Lydia Millet

December 5, 1968 - Canadian-American novelistAuthor of "My Happy Life" (for which she won the PEN Center USA Award for Fiction in 2003), "Love in ...