Gwethalyn Graham (1913–1965)
Autor(a) de Earth and High Heaven
About the Author
Obras por Gwethalyn Graham
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Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Graham, Gwethalyn
- Outros nomes
- Erichsen-Brown, Gwethalyn Graham (birth)
- Data de nascimento
- 1913-01-18
- Data de falecimento
- 1965-11-25
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- Canada
- Local de nascimento
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Local de falecimento
- Montréal, Québec, Canada
- Causa da morte
- brain cancer
- Locais de residência
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Westmount, Québec, Canada - Educação
- Smith College (dropped out)
- Ocupações
- novelist
script writer
social activist - Relações
- LeBourdais, Isabel (sister)
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- Gwethalyn Graham was born to a wealthy family in Toronto, Canada. Her sister Isabel LeBourdais also became a writer. Gwethalyn attended private school and a finishing school in Lausanne, Switzerland. She spent a year at Smith College in Massachusetts before dropping out in 1932 to marry John McNaught, with whom she had a son; they later divorced. In 1938, she published her first novel, Swiss Sonata, to critical acclaim -- it won the Governor General's Award for Fiction that year. It was followed by Earth and High Heaven (1944), another award-winning success that was the first Canadian book to reach number one on The New York Times bestseller list. In 1947, she remarried to David Yalden-Thomson, a philosophy professor, and moved to Virginia, where she taught at the University of Virginia. In 1958, she and her son returned to Canada, settling in Montréal, where she worked as a script writer for the Canadian Broadcasting Company. Her third novel was Dear Enemies (1963). She was an outspoken opponent of anti-Semitism and of anti-French Canadian discrimination. She died in 1965 at age 52. See also Gwethalyn Graham: A Liberated Woman in a Conventional Age by Barbara Meadowcroft (2008).
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 3
- Membros
- 183
- Popularidade
- #118,259
- Avaliação
- 4.0
- Críticas
- 3
- ISBN
- 13
slightly outdated but still relevant.