name: Robertson Davies
birth_date: 1913-08-28 00:00:00
death_date: 1995-12-02 00:00:00
genres: Fiction
influences: Robert Burton, William Shakespeare, Daniel Defoe, Johann Wyss, Thomas Mann, Sigmund , Carl Gustav Jung, Charles Dickens, Balzac, Sigmund Freud
avg_rating: 4.11
ratings_count: 72835
about: 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. Davies was the founding Master of Massey College, a graduate college at the University of Toronto. Novels: The Salterton Trilogy• Tempest-tost (1951)• Leaven of Malice (1954)• A Mixture of Frailties (1958)The Deptford Trilogy• Fifth Business (1970)• The Manticore (1972)• World of Wonders (1975)The Cornish Trilogy• The Rebel Angels (1981)• What's Bred in the Bone (1985)• The Lyre of Orpheus (1988)The Toronto Trilogy (Davies' final, incompl 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. Davies was the founding Master of Massey College, a graduate college at the University of Toronto. Novels: The Salterton Trilogy• Tempest-tost (1951)• Leaven of Malice (1954)• A Mixture of Frailties (1958)The Deptford Trilogy• Fifth Business (1970)• The Manticore (1972)• World of Wonders (1975)The Cornish Trilogy• The Rebel Angels (1981)• What's Bred in the Bone (1985)• The Lyre of Orpheus (1988)The Toronto Trilogy (Davies' final, incomplete, trilogy)• Murther and Walking Spirits (1991)• The Cunning Man (1994)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robertso... ...more