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Hugh MacLennan Quotes
An artist has to take life as he finds it. Life by itself is formless wherever it is. Art must give it form.
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| Birth: | 20th March, 1907 |
| Death: | 9th November, 1990 |
| Nationality: | Canadian |
| Profession: | Author, Essayist, Novelist, Professor |
About
John Hugh MacLennan was born in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada. He was a Canadian author, essayist, novelist and professor of English at McGill University from 1951-1963. He studied at Dalhousie University and the University of Oxford. He earned his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1935. He wrote several novels include: Barometer Rising, Two Solitudes(won- Governor General's Award for English-language fiction), The Precipice(won- Governor General's Award for English-language fiction), Each Man's Son, The Watch That Ends the Night(won- Governor General's Award for English-language fiction), Return of the Sphinx, and Voices in Time. His non-fiction works include: Canadian Unity and Quebec, Cross-Country(collection of essays, won- Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction), Thirty and Three(collection of essays, won- Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction), Scotchman's Return and other essays, Seven rivers of Canada, The colour of Canada, The other side of Hugh MacLennan, and On Being a Maritime Writer.
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