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William Robertson Davies CC OOnt FRSL FRSC (28 August 1913 – 2 December 1995) was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor.
Robertson Davies (born Aug. 28, 1913, Thamesville, Ont., Can.—died Dec. 2, 1995, Orangeville, Ont.) was a novelist and playwright whose works offer penetrating observations on Canadian provincialism and prudery.
Robertson Davies has 141 books on Goodreads with 150687 ratings. Robertson Davies’s most popular book is Fifth Business (The Deptford Trilogy, #1).
Dec 2, 1995 · William Robertson Davies, CC, FRSC, FRSL (died in Orangeville, Ontario) 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", a term Davies is sometimes said to have detested.
Apr 2, 2008 · A Companion of the Order of Canada, winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award, and founding master of Massey College at the University of Toronto, Robertson Davies is widely acknowledged as one of Canada’s most brilliant and influential essayists and novelists.
Jan 1, 2001 · Robertson Davies' three-part masterpiece is a sprawling international tale anchored by robust, multifaceted characters that slide in and out of the text like pop-up figures in a children's book. The first volume often sustained my reading fire for many pages at a sitting.
Jun 27, 2018 · Robertson Davies was novelist, journalist and professor. He was the literary editor of Saturday Night and a few years later became an editor at the Peterborough Examiner. He was made a...
