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Versatile and prolific, Robertson Davies was an actor, journalist and newspaper publisher, playwright, essayist, founding master of Massey College at the University of Toronto, and one of Canada’s greatest novelists. He was also an obsessive, complex, and self-revealing diarist. His diaries, which he began as a teenager, grew to over 3 million words and are an astonishing literary legacy. This first published selection of his diaries spans 1959 to 1963, years in which Davies, in mid-life, experienced both daunting failure and unexpected success.Born in Thamesville, Ontario, in 1913, he was educated at local schools, then Upper Canada College, Queen’s University and Oxford University. He worked in England at the famous Old Vic theatre as an actor and literary advisor before returning to Canada where he became the editor and publisher of the *Peterborough Examiner*, established himself as a prominent Canadian playwright, and published his first three novels now known as the *Salterton Trilogy*. By 1959, at the age of forty-five, Robertson Davies was already one of Canada’s leading literary figures. Even so the diaries show that he was frustrated by the limitations of his literary suc

Who reads A Celtic Temperament?

Author

Davies, Robertson; Surridge, Jennifer; Derry, Ramsay

Publisher

McClelland & Stewart

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780771027659

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Biography, Literary Biography