death_place death_date birth_place nationality notableworks birth_date period article_title name occupation
saskatoon , saskatchewan february 6 , 1990 hamilton , ontario canadian '' government of canada '' mice in the beer '' , '' the may 10 , 1918 1930s-1980s norman ward
 norman ward humorist , academic
norman ward

norman mcqueen ward -lrb- may 19 , 1918 - february 6 , 1990 -rrb- was a canadian writer and academic .
a longtime professor of political science at the university of saskatchewan , his writings spanned a wide variety of genres from politics to biography to humor .
born and raised in hamilton , ontario , he was educated at mcmaster university and the university of toronto .
he joined the faculty of the university of saskatchewan in 1944 , staying with the institution until his retirement in 1985 .
the writer and editor of several important political science texts on politics in canada and saskatchewan , he also published three books of humor .
he won the stephen leacock award in 1961 for `` mice in the beer '' , his first collection of humorous essays .
his later humor works were `` the fully-processed cheese '' -lrb- 1964 -rrb- and `` her majesty 's mice '' -lrb- 1977 -rrb- .
he was named a fellow of the royal society of canada in 1962 , and an officer of the order of canada in 1976 .
he also served on the advisory board for the first edition of the canadian encyclopedia in 1985 .
he died in 1990 in saskatoon .
`` jimmy gardiner : relentless liberal '' , his biography of former saskatchewan premier james garfield gardiner , was published posthumously later that year .
