Hugh MacLennan, John H. Wrenn, and Margaret Robb

Canadian author and essayist Hugh MacLennan (1907-1990) is best known for his focus on aspects of contemporary Canadian life. We wrote Barometer Rising (1941), an account of the 1917 Halifax explosion in Nova Scotia he survived as a child, Two Solitudes (1945), an examination of English-French tensions in Québec, The Precipice (1948), an examination of puritanism in small-town Ontario, and Each Man's Son (1951), a study of the Cape Breton mining community. Among his later works are The Watch that Ends the Night (1959), Return of the Sphinx (1967) and Voices in Time (1980). MacLennan was a five-time recipient of the Governor General's Literary Award, the Royal Bank Award in 1987, and Princeton University's James Madison Medal.

John H. Wrenn (1920 - ) is a former Professor of English at the University of Colorado at Boulder. A scholar of American writers from the Midwest, Wrenn wrote manuscripts on Edgar Lee Masters and John Dos Passos, both of which are available in Norlin Library.

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