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href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robertson_Davies" title="Robertson Davies – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Robertson Davies" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robertson_Davies" title="Robertson Davies – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Robertson Davies" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robertson_Davies" title="Robertson Davies – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Robertson Davies" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a 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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div style="display:inline;" class="fn">Robertson Davies</div><br /><div class="honorific-suffix" style="display:inline;font-size: 77%; font-weight: normal;"><span class="nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks" style="font-size:;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="/wiki/Order_of_Canada" title="Order of Canada">CC</a></span> <span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="/wiki/Order_of_Ontario" title="Order of Ontario">OOnt</a></span> <span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society_of_Literature" class="mw-redirect" title="Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature">FRSL</a></span> <span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society_of_Canada" title="Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada">FRSC</a></span></span></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Robertson_Davies_(Canadian_author_and_journalist).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Davies in 1982"><img alt="Davies in 1982" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Robertson_Davies_%28Canadian_author_and_journalist%29.jpg/220px-Robertson_Davies_%28Canadian_author_and_journalist%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="303" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Robertson_Davies_%28Canadian_author_and_journalist%29.jpg/330px-Robertson_Davies_%28Canadian_author_and_journalist%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Robertson_Davies_%28Canadian_author_and_journalist%29.jpg/440px-Robertson_Davies_%28Canadian_author_and_journalist%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3207" data-file-height="4423" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption" style="line-height:1.4em;">Davies in 1982</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Born</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1913-08-28</span>)</span>28 August 1913<br /><a href="/wiki/Thamesville,_Ontario" class="mw-redirect" title="Thamesville, Ontario">Thamesville, Ontario</a>, Canada</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Died</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">2 December 1995<span style="display:none">(1995-12-02)</span> (aged 82)<br /><a href="/wiki/Orangeville,_Ontario" title="Orangeville, Ontario">Orangeville, Ontario</a>, Canada</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role" style="line-height:1.4em;">Journalist, playwright, professor, critic, novelist</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Alma mater</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Queen%27s_University_at_Kingston" title="Queen's University at Kingston">Queen's University</a> (did not graduate)<br /> <a href="/wiki/Balliol_College,_Oxford" title="Balliol College, Oxford">Balliol College, Oxford</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Genre</th><td class="infobox-data category" style="line-height:1.4em;">Novels, plays, essays and reviews</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Notable works</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Deptford_Trilogy" title="The Deptford Trilogy">The Deptford Trilogy</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Cornish_Trilogy" title="The Cornish Trilogy">The Cornish Trilogy</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Salterton_Trilogy" title="The Salterton Trilogy">The Salterton Trilogy</a></i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Brenda_Davies" title="Brenda Davies">Brenda Ethel Davies</a> (m. 1940, 1917–2013)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Children</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">3</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>William Robertson Davies</b> <span class="nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks" style="font-size:;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><a href="/wiki/Order_of_Canada" title="Order of Canada">CC</a></span> <span style="font-size: 85%;"><a href="/wiki/Order_of_Ontario" title="Order of Ontario">OOnt</a></span> <span style="font-size: 85%;"><a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society_of_Literature" class="mw-redirect" title="Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature">FRSL</a></span> <span style="font-size: 85%;"><a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society_of_Canada" title="Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada">FRSC</a></span></span> (28 August 1913 – 2 December 1995) 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 "<a href="/wiki/Intellectual#Man_of_Letters" title="Intellectual">men of letters</a>", a term Davies gladly accepted for himself.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Davies was the founding <a href="/wiki/Master_(college)" class="mw-redirect" title="Master (college)">Master</a> of <a href="/wiki/Massey_College,_Toronto" title="Massey College, Toronto">Massey College</a>, a graduate <a href="/wiki/Residential_college" title="Residential college">residential college</a> associated with the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Toronto" title="University of Toronto">University of Toronto</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robertson_Davies&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_life">Early life</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robertson_Davies&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Davies was born in Thamesville, Ontario, the third son of <a href="/wiki/William_Rupert_Davies" class="mw-redirect" title="William Rupert Davies">William Rupert Davies</a> and Florence Sheppard McKay.<sup id="cite_ref-RD_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RD-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Growing up, Davies was surrounded by books and lively language. His father, a member of the Canadian Senate from 1942 to his death in 1967, was a newspaperman from <a href="/wiki/Welshpool" title="Welshpool">Welshpool</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wales" title="Wales">Wales</a>, and both parents were voracious readers. He followed in their footsteps and read everything he could. He also participated in theatrical productions as a child, where he developed a lifelong interest in drama. </p><p>He spent his formative years in <a href="/wiki/Renfrew,_Ontario" title="Renfrew, Ontario">Renfrew, Ontario</a> (and renamed it as "Blairlogie", in his novel <i>What's Bred in the Bone</i>); many of the novel's characters are named after families he knew there. He attended <a href="/wiki/Upper_Canada_College" title="Upper Canada College">Upper Canada College</a> in Toronto from 1926 to 1932 and while there attended services at the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_St._Mary_Magdalene_(Toronto)" title="Church of St. Mary Magdalene (Toronto)">Church of St. Mary Magdalene</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He would later leave the <a href="/wiki/Presbyterian_Church_in_Canada" title="Presbyterian Church in Canada">Presbyterian Church</a> and join <a href="/wiki/Anglican_Church_of_Canada" title="Anglican Church of Canada">Anglicanism</a> over objections to <a href="/wiki/Calvinist" class="mw-redirect" title="Calvinist">Calvinist</a> theology. Davies later used his experience of the ceremonial of High Mass at St. Mary Magdalene's in his novel <i>The Cunning Man</i>. </p><p>After Upper Canada College, he studied at <a href="/wiki/Queen%27s_University,_Canada" class="mw-redirect" title="Queen's University, Canada">Queen's University</a> at <a href="/wiki/Kingston,_Ontario" title="Kingston, Ontario">Kingston</a>, Ontario, from 1932 until 1935. According to the <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Queen%27s_University_Journal&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Queen's University Journal (page does not exist)">Queen's University Journal</a></i> Davies enrolled as a special student not working towards a degree, because he was unable to pass the mathematics component of Queen's entrance exam.<sup id="cite_ref-queensjournal2010-06-29_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-queensjournal2010-06-29-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At Queen's he wrote for the student paper, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Queen%27s_Journal" title="The Queen's Journal">The Queen's Journal</a></i>, where he wrote a literary column. He left Canada to study at <a href="/wiki/Balliol_College,_Oxford" title="Balliol College, Oxford">Balliol College, Oxford</a>, where he received a BLitt degree in 1938. The next year he published his thesis, <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shakespeare%27s_Boy_Actors&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Shakespeare's Boy Actors (page does not exist)">Shakespeare's Boy Actors</a></i>, and embarked on an acting career outside London. In 1940, he played small roles and did literary work for the director at the <a href="/wiki/Old_Vic" class="mw-redirect" title="Old Vic">Old Vic Repertory Company</a> in London. Also that year, Davies married Australian <a href="/wiki/Brenda_Davies" title="Brenda Davies">Brenda Mathews</a>, whom he had met at Oxford, and who was then working as <a href="/wiki/Stage_management" title="Stage management">stage manager</a> for the theatre.<sup id="cite_ref-RD_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RD-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They spent their honeymoon in the Welsh countryside at <a href="/wiki/Fronfraith_Hall" title="Fronfraith Hall">Fronfraith Hall</a>, <a href="/wiki/Abermule" title="Abermule">Abermule</a>, <a href="/wiki/Montgomery,_Powys" title="Montgomery, Powys">Montgomery</a>, the family house owned by Rupert Davies.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Davies's early life provided him with themes and material to which he would often return in his later work, including the theme of Canadians returning to England to finish their education, and the theatre. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Middle_years">Middle years</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robertson_Davies&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Middle years"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Davies and his new bride returned to Canada in 1940, where he took the position of literary <a href="/wiki/Editing" title="Editing">editor</a> at <i><a href="/wiki/Saturday_Night_(magazine)" title="Saturday Night (magazine)">Saturday Night</a></i> magazine. Two years later, he became editor of the <i><a href="/wiki/Peterborough_Examiner" class="mw-redirect" title="Peterborough Examiner">Peterborough Examiner</a></i> in the small city of <a href="/wiki/Peterborough,_Ontario" title="Peterborough, Ontario">Peterborough</a>, Ontario, northeast of Toronto. Again he was able to mine his experiences here for many of the characters and situations which later appeared in his plays and novels.<sup id="cite_ref-RD_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RD-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Davies, along with family members William Rupert Davies and Arthur Davies, purchased several media outlets. Along with the <i>Examiner</i> newspaper, they owned the <i><a href="/wiki/Kingston_Whig-Standard" class="mw-redirect" title="Kingston Whig-Standard">Kingston Whig-Standard</a></i> newspaper, <a href="/wiki/CKRU_(AM)" class="mw-redirect" title="CKRU (AM)">CHEX-AM</a>, <a href="/wiki/CKWS-AM" class="mw-redirect" title="CKWS-AM">CKWS-AM</a>, <a href="/wiki/CHEX-TV" class="mw-redirect" title="CHEX-TV">CHEX-TV</a>, and <a href="/wiki/CKWS-TV" class="mw-redirect" title="CKWS-TV">CKWS-TV</a>. </p><p>During his tenure as editor of the <i>Examiner</i>, which lasted from 1942 to 1955 (he subsequently served as publisher from 1955 to 1965), Davies published a total of 18 books, produced several of his own plays, and wrote articles for various journals.<sup id="cite_ref-RD_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RD-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Davies set out his theory of acting in his <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shakespeare_for_Young_Players&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Shakespeare for Young Players (page does not exist)">Shakespeare for Young Players</a></i> (1947), and then put theory into practice when he wrote <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Eros_at_Breakfast&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Eros at Breakfast (page does not exist)">Eros at Breakfast</a></i>, a one-act play which was named best Canadian play of the year by the 1948 <a href="/wiki/Dominion_Drama_Festival" title="Dominion Drama Festival">Dominion Drama Festival</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-RDPlay_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RDPlay-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>Eros at Breakfast</i> was followed by <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fortune,_My_Foe&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Fortune, My Foe (page does not exist)">Fortune, My Foe</a></i> in 1949 and <i>At My Heart's Core</i>, a three-act play, in 1950. Meanwhile, Davies was writing humorous essays in the <i>Examiner</i> under the pseudonym <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Marchbanks" title="Samuel Marchbanks">Samuel Marchbanks</a>. Some of these were collected and published in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Diary_of_Samuel_Marchbanks" title="The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks">The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks</a></i> (1947), <i><a href="/wiki/The_Table_Talk_of_Samuel_Marchbanks" title="The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks">The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks</a></i> (1949), and later in <i><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Marchbanks%27_Almanack" title="Samuel Marchbanks' Almanack">Samuel Marchbanks' Almanack</a></i> (1967). An omnibus edition of the three Marchbanks books, with new notes by the author, was published under the title <i><a href="/wiki/The_Papers_of_Samuel_Marchbanks" title="The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks">The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks</a></i> in 1985.<sup id="cite_ref-RDCB&A_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RDCB&A-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the 1950s, Davies played a major role in launching the <a href="/wiki/Stratford_Festival_of_Canada" class="mw-redirect" title="Stratford Festival of Canada">Stratford Shakespearean Festival of Canada</a>. He served on the Festival's board of governors, and collaborated with the Festival's director, Sir <a href="/wiki/Tyrone_Guthrie" title="Tyrone Guthrie">Tyrone Guthrie</a>, in publishing three books about the Festival's early years.<sup id="cite_ref-RD_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RD-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Although his first love was drama and he had achieved some success with his occasional humorous essays, Davies found his greatest success in fiction. His first three novels, which later became known as <a href="/wiki/The_Salterton_Trilogy" title="The Salterton Trilogy">The Salterton Trilogy</a>, were <i><a href="/wiki/Tempest-Tost" title="Tempest-Tost">Tempest-Tost</a></i> (1951, originally conceived as a play), <i><a href="/wiki/Leaven_of_Malice" title="Leaven of Malice">Leaven of Malice</a></i> (1954, also the basis of the unsuccessful play <i>Love and Libel</i>) which won the <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Leacock_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Stephen Leacock Award">Stephen Leacock Award for Humour</a>, and <i><a href="/wiki/A_Mixture_of_Frailties" title="A Mixture of Frailties">A Mixture of Frailties</a></i> (1958).<sup id="cite_ref-RDCB&A_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RDCB&A-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These novels explored the difficulty of sustaining a cultural life in Canada, and life on a small-town newspaper, subjects of which Davies had first-hand knowledge. In a 1959 essay on Nabokov's Lolita, he wrote that she was a corrupt child taking advantage of a weak adult. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1960s">1960s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robertson_Davies&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: 1960s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Massey_college.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b4/Massey_college.jpg/220px-Massey_college.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b4/Massey_college.jpg/330px-Massey_college.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b4/Massey_college.jpg/440px-Massey_college.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2127" data-file-height="1596" /></a><figcaption>Exterior of the college from the southeast on Hoskin Avenue, showing residence of the master</figcaption></figure><p>In 1960, Davies joined <a href="/wiki/University_of_Trinity_College" class="mw-redirect" title="University of Trinity College">Trinity College</a> at the University of Toronto, where he would teach literature until 1981. The following year he published a collection of essays on literature, <i><a href="/wiki/A_Voice_From_the_Attic" class="mw-redirect" title="A Voice From the Attic">A Voice From the Attic</a></i>, and was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Lorne_Pierce_Medal" title="Lorne Pierce Medal">Lorne Pierce Medal</a> for his literary achievements.<sup id="cite_ref-RD_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RD-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1963, he became the Master of <a href="/wiki/Massey_College,_Toronto" title="Massey College, Toronto">Massey College</a>, the University of Toronto's new graduate college.<sup id="cite_ref-RD_2-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RD-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During his stint as Master, he initiated a tradition of writing and telling <a href="/wiki/Ghost_story" title="Ghost story">ghost stories</a> at the yearly Christmas celebrations.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These stories were later collected in the book <i><a href="/wiki/High_Spirits_(short_story_collection)" title="High Spirits (short story collection)">High Spirits</a></i> (1982).<sup id="cite_ref-RDCB&A_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RDCB&A-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1970s">1970s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robertson_Davies&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 1970s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Davies drew on his interest in <a href="/wiki/Jungian_psychology" class="mw-redirect" title="Jungian psychology">Jungian psychology</a> to create <i><a href="/wiki/Fifth_Business" title="Fifth Business">Fifth Business</a></i> (1970), a novel that relies heavily on Davies's own experiences, his love of <a href="/wiki/Mythology" class="mw-redirect" title="Mythology">myth</a> and <a href="/wiki/Magic_and_religion" title="Magic and religion">magic</a>, and his knowledge of small-town <a href="/wiki/Mores" title="Mores">mores</a>. The narrator, like Davies, is of immigrant Canadian background, with a father who runs the town paper. The book's characters act in roles that roughly correspond to Jungian <a href="/wiki/Archetypes" class="mw-redirect" title="Archetypes">archetypes</a> according to Davies's belief in the predominance of spirit over the things of the world.<sup id="cite_ref-RD_2-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RD-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Davies built on the success of <i>Fifth Business</i> with two more novels: <i><a href="/wiki/The_Manticore" title="The Manticore">The Manticore</a></i> (1972), a novel cast largely in the form of a <a href="/wiki/Jungian_analysis" class="mw-redirect" title="Jungian analysis">Jungian analysis</a> (for which he received that year's <a href="/wiki/Governor_General%27s_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Governor General's Award">Governor General's Literary Award</a>),<sup id="cite_ref-NPRD_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NPRD-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <i><a href="/wiki/World_of_Wonders_(novel)" title="World of Wonders (novel)">World of Wonders</a></i> (1975). Together these three books came to be known as <i><a href="/wiki/The_Deptford_Trilogy" title="The Deptford Trilogy">The Deptford Trilogy</a></i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1980s_and_1990s">1980s and 1990s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robertson_Davies&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: 1980s and 1990s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>When Davies retired from his position at the university, his seventh novel, a satire of academic life, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Rebel_Angels" title="The Rebel Angels">The Rebel Angels</a></i> (1981), was published, followed by <i><a href="/wiki/What%27s_Bred_in_the_Bone" title="What's Bred in the Bone">What's Bred in the Bone</a></i> (1985) which was short-listed for the <a href="/wiki/Booker_Prize" title="Booker Prize">Booker Prize</a> for fiction in 1986.<sup id="cite_ref-NPRD_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NPRD-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/The_Lyre_of_Orpheus_(novel)" title="The Lyre of Orpheus (novel)">The Lyre of Orpheus</a></i> (1988) follows these two books in what became known as <i><a href="/wiki/The_Cornish_Trilogy" title="The Cornish Trilogy">The Cornish Trilogy</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-RDCB&A_7-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RDCB&A-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During his retirement from academe he continued to write novels which further established him as a major figure in the literary world: <i><a href="/wiki/Murther_and_Walking_Spirits" title="Murther and Walking Spirits">Murther and Walking Spirits</a></i> (1991) and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Cunning_Man" title="The Cunning Man">The Cunning Man</a></i> (1994).<sup id="cite_ref-RDCB&A_7-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RDCB&A-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A third novel in what would have been a further trilogy – the Toronto Trilogy – was in progress at the time of Davies's death.<sup id="cite_ref-RD_2-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RD-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also realized a long-held dream when he penned the <a href="/wiki/Libretto" title="Libretto">libretto</a> to <a href="/wiki/Randolph_Peters" title="Randolph Peters">Randolph Peters</a>' opera: <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Golden_Ass_(opera)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Golden Ass (opera) (page does not exist)">The Golden Ass</a></i>, based on <i><a href="/wiki/The_Golden_Ass" title="The Golden Ass">The Metamorphoses</a></i> of <a href="/wiki/Apuleius" title="Apuleius">Lucius Apuleius</a>, just like that written by one of the characters in Davies's 1958 <i>A Mixture of Frailties</i>. The opera was performed by the <a href="/wiki/Canadian_Opera_Company" title="Canadian Opera Company">Canadian Opera Company</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Hummingbird_Centre" class="mw-redirect" title="Hummingbird Centre">Hummingbird Centre</a> in Toronto, in April 1999, several years after Davies's death.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In its obituary, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Times" title="The Times">The Times</a></i> wrote: "Davies encompassed all the great elements of life ... His novels combined deep seriousness and psychological inquiry with fantasy and exuberant mirth."<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He remained close friends with <a href="/wiki/John_Kenneth_Galbraith" title="John Kenneth Galbraith">John Kenneth Galbraith</a>, attending Galbraith's eighty-fifth birthday party in <a href="/wiki/Boston" title="Boston">Boston</a> in 1993,<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and became so close a friend and colleague of the American novelist <a href="/wiki/John_Irving" title="John Irving">John Irving</a> that Irving gave one of the scripture readings at Davies's funeral in the chapel of <a href="/wiki/Trinity_College,_Toronto" title="Trinity College, Toronto">Trinity College, Toronto</a>. He also wrote in support of <a href="/wiki/Salman_Rushdie" title="Salman Rushdie">Salman Rushdie</a> when the latter was threatened by a <i><a href="/wiki/Fatw%C4%81" class="mw-redirect" title="Fatwā">fatwā</a></i> from <a href="/wiki/Ayatollah" title="Ayatollah">Ayatollah</a> <a href="/wiki/Ruhollah_Khomeini" title="Ruhollah Khomeini">Ruhollah Khomeini</a> of Iran in reaction to supposed anti-Islam expression in his novel <i><a href="/wiki/The_Satanic_Verses" title="The Satanic Verses">The Satanic Verses</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robertson_Davies&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Davies was married to Brenda Ethel Davies (1917–2013) in 1940 and survived by four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren from his three daughters Miranda Davies, Rosamond Bailey and author <a href="/w/index.php?title=Jennifer_Surridge&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jennifer Surridge (page does not exist)">Jennifer Surridge</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Davies never learned to drive.<sup id="cite_ref-TheWhig2015-11-25_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TheWhig2015-11-25-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His wife Brenda routinely drove him to events and other excursions. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards_and_recognition">Awards and recognition</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robertson_Davies&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Awards and recognition"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Won the Dominion Drama Festival Award for best Canadian play in 1948 for <i>Eros at Breakfast</i>.</li> <li>Won the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour in 1955 for <i>Leaven of Malice</i>.</li> <li>Won the Lorne Pierce Medal for his literary achievements in 1961.</li> <li>Won the <a href="/wiki/Governor_General%27s_Award_for_English-language_fiction" title="Governor General's Award for English-language fiction">Governor-General's Literary Award in the English language fiction</a> category in 1972 for <i>The Manticore</i>.</li> <li>Short-listed for the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1986 for <i>What's Bred in the Bone</i>.</li> <li>Honorary Doctor of Letters, <a href="/wiki/University_of_Oxford" title="University of Oxford">University of Oxford</a>, 1991.<sup id="cite_ref-RD_2-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RD-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>First Canadian to become an Honorary Member of the <a href="/wiki/American_Academy_and_Institute_of_Arts_and_Letters" class="mw-redirect" title="American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters">American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-RD_2-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RD-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Companion of the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_Canada" title="Order of Canada">Order of Canada</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-RD_2-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RD-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Park in Toronto named after him in 2007.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Works">Works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robertson_Davies&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239549316">.mw-parser-output .refbegin{margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul{margin-left:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{margin-left:0;padding-left:3.2em;text-indent:-3.2em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul,.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul li{list-style:none}@media(max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{padding-left:1.6em;text-indent:-1.6em}}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .refbegin{font-size:90%}}</style><div class="refbegin refbegin-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Novels">Novels</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robertson_Davies&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Novels"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Salterton_Trilogy" title="The Salterton Trilogy">The Salterton Trilogy</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Tempest-Tost" title="Tempest-Tost">Tempest-Tost</a></i> (1951)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Leaven_of_Malice" title="Leaven of Malice">Leaven of Malice</a></i> (1954)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Mixture_of_Frailties" title="A Mixture of Frailties">A Mixture of Frailties</a></i> (1958)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Deptford_Trilogy" title="The Deptford Trilogy">The Deptford Trilogy</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Fifth_Business" title="Fifth Business">Fifth Business</a></i> (1970)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Manticore" title="The Manticore">The Manticore</a></i> (1972)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/World_of_Wonders_(novel)" title="World of Wonders (novel)">World of Wonders</a></i> (1975)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Cornish_Trilogy" title="The Cornish Trilogy">The Cornish Trilogy</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Rebel_Angels" title="The Rebel Angels">The Rebel Angels</a></i> (1981)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/What%27s_Bred_in_the_Bone" title="What's Bred in the Bone">What's Bred in the Bone</a></i> (1985)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Lyre_of_Orpheus_(novel)" title="The Lyre of Orpheus (novel)">The Lyre of Orpheus</a></i> (1988)</li></ul></li> <li>The "Toronto Trilogy" (incomplete) <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Murther_and_Walking_Spirits" title="Murther and Walking Spirits">Murther and Walking Spirits</a></i> (1991)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Cunning_Man" title="The Cunning Man">The Cunning Man</a></i> (1994)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Essays">Essays</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robertson_Davies&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Essays"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><b>Fictional essays</b> </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Diary_of_Samuel_Marchbanks" title="The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks">The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks</a></i> (1947)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Table_Talk_of_Samuel_Marchbanks" title="The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks">The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks</a></i> (1949)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Marchbanks%27_Almanack" title="Samuel Marchbanks' Almanack">Samuel Marchbanks' Almanack</a></i> (1967)</li></ul> <p>edited by the author into: </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Papers_of_Samuel_Marchbanks" title="The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks">The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks</a></i> (1985)</li></ul> <p><b>Criticism</b> </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shakespeare%27s_Boy_Actors&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Shakespeare's Boy Actors (page does not exist)">Shakespeare's Boy Actors</a></i> (1939) (as W. Robertson Davies)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shakespeare_for_Young_Players:_A_Junior_Course&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Shakespeare for Young Players: A Junior Course (page does not exist)">Shakespeare for Young Players: A Junior Course</a></i> (1942)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Renown_at_Stratford&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Renown at Stratford (page does not exist)">Renown at Stratford</a></i> (1953) (with <a href="/wiki/Tyrone_Guthrie" title="Tyrone Guthrie">Tyrone Guthrie</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Twice_Have_the_Trumpets_Sounded&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Twice Have the Trumpets Sounded (page does not exist)">Twice Have the Trumpets Sounded</a></i> (1954) (with Tyrone Guthrie)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thrice_the_Brindled_Cat_Hath_Mew%27d&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Thrice the Brindled Cat Hath Mew'd (page does not exist)">Thrice the Brindled Cat Hath Mew'd</a></i> (1955) (with Tyrone Guthrie)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Voice_From_the_Attic" class="mw-redirect" title="A Voice From the Attic">A Voice From the Attic</a></i> (1960) also published as <i>The Personal Art</i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Feast_of_Stephen&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="A Feast of Stephen (page does not exist)">A Feast of Stephen</a></i> (1970)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stephen_Leacock_(criticism)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Stephen Leacock (criticism) (page does not exist)">Stephen Leacock</a></i> (1970)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=One_Half_of_Robertson_Davies&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="One Half of Robertson Davies (page does not exist)">One Half of Robertson Davies</a></i> (1977)</li> <li><i>The Enthusiasms of Robertson Davies</i> (1979; revised 1990) (edited by <a href="/wiki/Judith_Skelton_Grant" title="Judith Skelton Grant">Judith Skelton Grant</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Well-Tempered_Critic_(Davies)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Well-Tempered Critic (Davies)">The Well-Tempered Critic</a></i> (1981) (edited by <a href="/wiki/Judith_Skelton_Grant" title="Judith Skelton Grant">Judith Skelton Grant</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Mirror_of_Nature&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Mirror of Nature (page does not exist)">The Mirror of Nature</a></i> (1983)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Reading_and_Writing" title="Reading and Writing">Reading and Writing</a></i> (1993) (two essays, later collected in <i>The Merry Heart</i>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Merry_Heart" class="mw-redirect" title="The Merry Heart">The Merry Heart</a></i> (1996)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Happy_Alchemy" title="Happy Alchemy">Happy Alchemy</a></i> (1997) (edited by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Jennifer_Surridge&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jennifer Surridge (page does not exist)">Jennifer Surridge</a> and <a href="/wiki/Brenda_Davies" title="Brenda Davies">Brenda Davies</a>)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Plays">Plays</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robertson_Davies&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Plays"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Overlaid&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Overlaid (page does not exist)">Overlaid</a></i> (1948)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Eros_at_Breakfast&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Eros at Breakfast (page does not exist)">Eros at Breakfast</a></i> (1948)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hope_Deferred" title="Hope Deferred">Hope Deferred</a></i> (1948)</li> <li><i>King Phoenix</i> (1948)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=At_the_Gates_of_the_Righteous&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="At the Gates of the Righteous (page does not exist)">At the Gates of the Righteous</a></i> (1949)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fortune_My_Foe&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Fortune My Foe (page does not exist)">Fortune My Foe</a></i> (1949)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Voice_of_the_People_(play)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Voice of the People (play) (page does not exist)">The Voice of the People</a></i> (1949)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=At_My_Heart%27s_Core&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="At My Heart's Core (page does not exist)">At My Heart's Core</a></i> (1950)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Masque_of_Aesop&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="A Masque of Aesop (page does not exist)">A Masque of Aesop</a></i> (1952)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hunting_Stuart&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hunting Stuart (page does not exist)">Hunting Stuart</a></i> (1955)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Jig_for_the_Gypsy&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="A Jig for the Gypsy (page does not exist)">A Jig for the Gypsy</a></i> (1955)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=General_Confession_(play)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="General Confession (play) (page does not exist)">General Confession</a></i> (1956)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Masque_of_Mr._Punch&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="A Masque of Mr. Punch (page does not exist)">A Masque of Mr. Punch</a></i> (1963)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Question_Time_(play)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Question Time (play) (page does not exist)">Question Time</a></i> (1975)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Brothers_in_the_Black_Art&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Brothers in the Black Art (page does not exist)">Brothers in the Black Art</a></i> (1981)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Short_story_collection">Short story collection</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robertson_Davies&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Short story collection"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/High_Spirits_(short_story_collection)" title="High Spirits (short story collection)">High Spirits</a></i> (1982)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Libretti">Libretti</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robertson_Davies&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Libretti"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Doctor_Canon%27s_Cure_(opera)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Doctor Canon's Cure (opera) (page does not exist)">Doctor Canon's Cure</a></i> (1982)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jezebel_(oratorio)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jezebel (oratorio) (page does not exist)">Jezebel</a></i> (1993)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Golden_Ass_(opera)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Golden Ass (opera) (page does not exist)">The Golden Ass</a></i> (1999)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Letters_and_diaries">Letters and diaries</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robertson_Davies&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Letters and diaries"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/For_Your_Eye_Alone" title="For Your Eye Alone">For Your Eye Alone</a></i> (2000) (edited by <a href="/wiki/Judith_Skelton_Grant" title="Judith Skelton Grant">Judith Skelton Grant</a>)</li> <li><i>Discoveries</i> (2002) (edited by <a href="/wiki/Judith_Skelton_Grant" title="Judith Skelton Grant">Judith Skelton Grant</a>)</li> <li><i>A Celtic Temperament: Robertson Davies as Diarist</i> (2015) (edited by Jennifer Surridge and Ramsay Derry)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Collections">Collections</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robertson_Davies&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Collections"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Conversations with Robertson Davies</i> (1989) (Edited by J. Madison Davis)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Quotable_Robertson_Davies&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Quotable Robertson Davies (page does not exist)">The Quotable Robertson Davies: The Wit and Wisdom of the Master</a></i> (2005) (collected by James Channing Shaw)</li> <li><i>The Merry Heart: Reflections on Reading Writing, and the World of Books</i> (New York: Viking, 1997). <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780670873661" title="Special:BookSources/9780670873661">9780670873661</a></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robertson_Davies&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Responding to <a href="/wiki/Peter_Gzowski" title="Peter Gzowski">Peter Gzowski</a>'s query as to whether he accepted the label, Davies said, "I would be delighted to accept it. In fact, I think it's an entirely honourable and desirable title, but you know people are beginning to despise it." Davis, J. Madison (ed.) (1989). <i>Conversations with Robertson Davies</i>. Mississippi University Press. p. 99.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-RD-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-RD_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-RD_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-RD_2-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-RD_2-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-RD_2-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-RD_2-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-RD_2-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-RD_2-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-RD_2-8"><sup><i><b>i</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-RD_2-9"><sup><i><b>j</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-RD_2-10"><sup><i><b>k</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-RD_2-11"><sup><i><b>l</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation encyclopaedia cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/robertson-davies">"Robertson Davies"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Canadian_Encyclopedia" title="The Canadian Encyclopedia">The Canadian Encyclopedia</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">8 September</span> 2019</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Robertson+Davies&rft.btitle=The+Canadian+Encyclopedia&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca%2Fen%2Farticle%2Frobertson-davies&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARobertson+Davies" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://us.penguingroup.com/static/rguides/us/cunning_man.html">Penguin USA: Book Club Reading Guides: The Cunning Man</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060427121806/http://us.penguingroup.com/static/rguides/us/cunning_man.html">Archived</a> 27 April 2006 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-queensjournal2010-06-29-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-queensjournal2010-06-29_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLabiba_Haque2010" class="citation news cs1">Labiba Haque (29 June 2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.queensjournal.ca/story/2010-06-29/news/canadian-classics-come-queens/">"Canadian classics come to Queen's: Famed author Robertson Davies' collection set to be displayed in library"</a>. <i>Queen's University Journal</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">5 January</span> 2021</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Queen%27s+University+Journal&rft.atitle=Canadian+classics+come+to+Queen%27s%3A+Famed+author+Robertson+Davies%27+collection+set+to+be+displayed+in+library&rft.date=2010-06-29&rft.au=Labiba+Haque&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.queensjournal.ca%2Fstory%2F2010-06-29%2Fnews%2Fcanadian-classics-come-queens%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARobertson+Davies" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFEnglish1999" class="citation book cs1">English, E., ed. (1999). <i>A Collected History of the Communities of Llandyssil, Abermule and Llanmerewig</i>. Llandyssil Community Council.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+Collected+History+of+the+Communities+of+Llandyssil%2C+Abermule+and+Llanmerewig&rft.pub=Llandyssil+Community+Council&rft.date=1999&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARobertson+Davies" class="Z3988"></span> Section 6, pt. 1.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-RDPlay-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-RDPlay_6-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFStone-Blackburn1985" class="citation book cs1">Stone-Blackburn, Susan (1985). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=2wSfrq9cM_QC&pg=PA19"><i>Robertson Davies, Playwright: A Search for the Self on the Canadian Stage</i></a>. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7748-0211-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-7748-0211-1"><bdi>0-7748-0211-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Robertson+Davies%2C+Playwright%3A+A+Search+for+the+Self+on+the+Canadian+Stage&rft.place=Vancouver&rft.pub=University+of+British+Columbia+Press&rft.date=1985&rft.isbn=0-7748-0211-1&rft.aulast=Stone-Blackburn&rft.aufirst=Susan&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D2wSfrq9cM_QC%26pg%3DPA19&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARobertson+Davies" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-RDCB&A-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-RDCB&A_7-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-RDCB&A_7-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-RDCB&A_7-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-RDCB&A_7-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-RDCB&A_7-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151008143627/http://www.canadianauthors.net/d/davies_robertson/">"Robertson Davies Canadian Books & Authors"</a>. <i>canadianauthors.net</i>. Canadian Books & Authors. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.canadianauthors.net/d/davies_robertson/">the original</a> on 8 October 2015<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">7 October</span> 2015</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=canadianauthors.net&rft.atitle=Robertson+Davies+Canadian+Books+%26+Authors&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.canadianauthors.net%2Fd%2Fdavies_robertson%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARobertson+Davies" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151015204125/https://www2.stratfordfestival.ca/about/impact.aspx?id=1673">"Stratford Festival"</a>. <i>stratfordfestival.ca</i>. Stratford Festival. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www2.stratfordfestival.ca/about/impact.aspx?id=1673">the original</a> on 15 October 2015<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">9 October</span> 2015</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=stratfordfestival.ca&rft.atitle=Stratford+Festival&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww2.stratfordfestival.ca%2Fabout%2Fimpact.aspx%3Fid%3D1673&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARobertson+Davies" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSpedoniGrant2014" class="citation book cs1">Spedoni, Carl; <a href="/wiki/Judith_Skelton_Grant" title="Judith Skelton Grant">Grant, Judith Skelton</a> (2014). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=RQM_BAAAQBAJ&pg=RA1-PR13"><i>A Bibliography of Robertson Davies</i></a>. University of Toronto Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1442667280" title="Special:BookSources/978-1442667280"><bdi>978-1442667280</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+Bibliography+of+Robertson+Davies&rft.pub=University+of+Toronto+Press&rft.date=2014&rft.isbn=978-1442667280&rft.aulast=Spedoni&rft.aufirst=Carl&rft.au=Grant%2C+Judith+Skelton&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DRQM_BAAAQBAJ%26pg%3DRA1-PR13&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARobertson+Davies" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-NPRD-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-NPRD_10-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-NPRD_10-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCorrigan2013" class="citation news cs1">Corrigan, David Rockne (28 August 2013). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.nationalpost.com/arts/books/canadian-novelist-robertson-davies-honoured-with-postage-stamp">"Canadian Novelist Robertson Davies Honoured with Postage Stamp"</a>. <i>National Post</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.penguin.ca/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000008384,00.html">the original</a> on 12 January 2012.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Penguin.ca&rft.atitle=Robertson+Davies&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.penguin.ca%2Fnf%2FAuthor%2FAuthorPage%2F0%2C%2C1000008384%2C00.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARobertson+Davies" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFParker2005" class="citation book cs1">Parker, Richard (2005). <i>John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics</i>. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. pp. 532ff photos.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=John+Kenneth+Galbraith%3A+His+Life%2C+His+Politics%2C+His+Economics&rft.place=New+York&rft.pages=532ff+photos&rft.pub=Farrar%2C+Straus+and+Giroux&rft.date=2005&rft.aulast=Parker&rft.aufirst=Richard&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARobertson+Davies" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAppignanesiMaitland1990" class="citation book cs1">Appignanesi, Lisa; Maitland, Sara, eds. (1990). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/rushdiefile00lite"><i>The Rushdie File</i></a></span>. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">5 January</span> 2021</span>. <q><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>Their marriage was quite a love story and she was incredibly supportive. She was his first reader, and she drove him everywhere — he never learned to drive — and she organized his life to his convenience. That's why we included letters from when he went to Ireland. He was not very good at being away from her.<span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span></q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Kingston+Whig+Standard&rft.atitle=A+great+Canadian+diarist&rft.date=2015-11-25&rft.au=Merilyn+Simonds&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thewhig.com%2F2015%2F11%2F25%2Fa-great-canadian-diarist%2Fwcm%2F7eb2f969-8762-715a-9788-10aa37023dfc&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARobertson+Davies" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRoss2007" class="citation news cs1">Ross, Val (31 May 2007). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/park-named-after-robertson-davies/article20398324/">"Park named after Robertson Davies"</a>. <i>Globe and Mail</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Globe+and+Mail&rft.atitle=Park+named+after+Robertson+Davies&rft.date=2007-05-31&rft.aulast=Ross&rft.aufirst=Val&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theglobeandmail.com%2Farts%2Fpark-named-after-robertson-davies%2Farticle20398324%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARobertson+Davies" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robertson_Davies&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGrant1994" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Judith_Skelton_Grant" title="Judith Skelton Grant">Grant, Judith Skelton</a> (1994). <i>Robertson Davies: Man of Myth</i>. Toronto: Viking. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-670-82557-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-670-82557-3"><bdi>0-670-82557-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Robertson+Davies%3A+Man+of+Myth&rft.place=Toronto&rft.pub=Viking&rft.date=1994&rft.isbn=0-670-82557-3&rft.aulast=Grant&rft.aufirst=Judith+Skelton&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARobertson+Davies" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robertson_Davies&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output 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style="width:1%">Fictional essays</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Diary_of_Samuel_Marchbanks" title="The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks">The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Table_Talk_of_Samuel_Marchbanks" title="The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks">The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Marchbanks%27_Almanack" title="Samuel Marchbanks' Almanack">Samuel Marchbanks' Almanack</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Papers_of_Samuel_Marchbanks" title="The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks">The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Critical essays</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Voice_from_the_Attic" title="A Voice from the Attic">A Voice from the Attic</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Well-Tempered_Critic_(Davies)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Well-Tempered Critic (Davies)">The Well-Tempered Critic</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Happy_Alchemy" title="Happy Alchemy">Happy Alchemy</a></i></li> <li><i>The Enthusiasms of Robertson Davies</i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Miscellaneous</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Marchbanks" title="Samuel Marchbanks">Samuel Marchbanks</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/High_Spirits_(short_story_collection)" title="High Spirits (short story collection)">High Spirits</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/For_Your_Eye_Alone" title="For Your Eye Alone">For Your Eye Alone</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link 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title="Think of the Earth">Think of the Earth</a></i> (1936)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laura_Salverson" title="Laura Salverson">Laura Salverson</a>, <i>The Dark Weaver</i> (1937)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gwethalyn_Graham" title="Gwethalyn Graham">Gwethalyn Graham</a>, <i>Swiss Sonata</i> (1938)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Franklin_D._McDowell" title="Franklin D. McDowell">Franklin D. McDowell</a>, <i>The Champlain Road</i> (1939)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1940s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ringuet" class="mw-redirect" title="Ringuet">Ringuet</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Thirty_Acres" title="Thirty Acres">Thirty Acres</a></i> (1940)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alan_Sullivan" title="Alan Sullivan">Alan Sullivan</a>, <i>Three Came to Ville Marie</i> (1941)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/G._Herbert_Sallans" title="G. Herbert Sallans">G. Herbert Sallans</a>, <i>Little Man</i> (1942)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Head_Raddall" title="Thomas Head Raddall">Thomas Head Raddall</a>, <i>The Pied Piper of Dipper Creek</i> (1943)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gwethalyn_Graham" title="Gwethalyn Graham">Gwethalyn Graham</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Earth_and_High_Heaven" title="Earth and High Heaven">Earth and High Heaven</a></i> (1944)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugh_MacLennan" title="Hugh MacLennan">Hugh MacLennan</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Two_Solitudes_(novel)" title="Two Solitudes (novel)">Two Solitudes</a></i> (1945)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Winifred_Bambrick" title="Winifred Bambrick">Winifred Bambrick</a>, <i>Continental Revue</i> (1946)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gabrielle_Roy" title="Gabrielle Roy">Gabrielle Roy</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Tin_Flute" title="The Tin Flute">The Tin Flute</a></i> (1947)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugh_MacLennan" title="Hugh MacLennan">Hugh MacLennan</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Precipice_(MacLennan_novel)" title="The Precipice (MacLennan novel)">The Precipice</a></i> (1948)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philip_Child" title="Philip Child">Philip Child</a>, <i>Mr. Ames Against Time</i> (1949)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1950s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Germaine_Gu%C3%A8vremont" title="Germaine Guèvremont">Germaine Guèvremont</a>, <i>The Outlander</i> (1950)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morley_Callaghan" title="Morley Callaghan">Morley Callaghan</a>, <i>The Loved and the Lost</i> (1951)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Walker_(author)" title="David Walker (author)">David Walker</a>, <i>The Pillar</i> (1952)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Walker_(author)" title="David Walker (author)">David Walker</a>, <i>Digby</i> (1953)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Igor_Gouzenko" title="Igor Gouzenko">Igor Gouzenko</a>, <i>The Fall of a Titan</i> (1954)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lionel_Shapiro" title="Lionel Shapiro">Lionel Shapiro</a>, <i>The Sixth of June</i> (1955)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adele_Wiseman" title="Adele Wiseman">Adele Wiseman</a>, <i>The Sacrifice</i> (1956)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gabrielle_Roy" title="Gabrielle Roy">Gabrielle Roy</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Street_of_Riches" title="Street of Riches">Street of Riches</a></i> (1957)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colin_McDougall" title="Colin McDougall">Colin McDougall</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Execution_(novel)" title="Execution (novel)">Execution</a></i> (1958)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugh_MacLennan" title="Hugh MacLennan">Hugh MacLennan</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Watch_That_Ends_the_Night" title="The Watch That Ends the Night">The Watch That Ends the Night</a></i> (1959)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1960s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Brian_Moore_(novelist)" title="Brian Moore (novelist)">Brian Moore</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Luck_of_Ginger_Coffey_(novel)" title="The Luck of Ginger Coffey (novel)">The Luck of Ginger Coffey</a></i> (1960)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malcolm_Lowry" title="Malcolm Lowry">Malcolm Lowry</a>, <i>Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place</i> (1961)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kildare_Dobbs" title="Kildare Dobbs">Kildare Dobbs</a>, <i>Running to Paradise</i> (1962)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugh_Garner" title="Hugh Garner">Hugh Garner</a>, <i>Hugh Garner's Best Stories</i> (1963)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Douglas_LePan" title="Douglas LePan">Douglas LePan</a>, <i>The Deserter</i> (1964)</li> <li>[no award] (1965)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Laurence" title="Margaret Laurence">Margaret Laurence</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/A_Jest_of_God" title="A Jest of God">A Jest of God</a></i> (1966)</li> <li>[no award] (1967)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alice_Munro" title="Alice Munro">Alice Munro</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Dance_of_the_Happy_Shades" title="Dance of the Happy Shades">Dance of the Happy Shades</a></i> (1968)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Kroetsch" title="Robert Kroetsch">Robert Kroetsch</a>, <i>The Studhorse Man</i> (1969)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1970s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dave_Godfrey" title="Dave Godfrey">Dave Godfrey</a>, <i>The New Ancestors</i> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mordecai_Richler" title="Mordecai Richler">Mordecai Richler</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/St._Urbain%27s_Horseman" title="St. Urbain's Horseman">St. Urbain's Horseman</a></i> (1971)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Robertson Davies</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Manticore" title="The Manticore">The Manticore</a></i> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rudy_Wiebe" title="Rudy Wiebe">Rudy Wiebe</a>, <i>The Temptations of Big Bear</i> (1973)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Laurence" title="Margaret Laurence">Margaret Laurence</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Diviners" title="The Diviners">The Diviners</a></i> (1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brian_Moore_(novelist)" title="Brian Moore (novelist)">Brian Moore</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Great_Victorian_Collection" title="The Great Victorian Collection">The Great Victorian Collection</a></i> (1975)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marian_Engel" title="Marian Engel">Marian Engel</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Bear_(novel)" title="Bear (novel)">Bear</a></i> (1976)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timothy_Findley" title="Timothy Findley">Timothy Findley</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Wars" title="The Wars">The Wars</a></i> (1977)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alice_Munro" title="Alice Munro">Alice Munro</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Who_Do_You_Think_You_Are%3F_(book)" title="Who Do You Think You Are? (book)">Who Do You Think You Are?</a></i> (1978)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Hodgins" title="Jack Hodgins">Jack Hodgins</a>, <i>The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne</i> (1979)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1980s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Bowering" title="George Bowering">George Bowering</a>, <i>Burning Water</i> (1980)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mavis_Gallant" title="Mavis Gallant">Mavis Gallant</a>, <i>Home Truths: Selected Canadian Stories</i> (1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guy_Vanderhaeghe" title="Guy Vanderhaeghe">Guy Vanderhaeghe</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Man_Descending" title="Man Descending">Man Descending</a></i> (1982)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leon_Rooke" title="Leon Rooke">Leon Rooke</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Shakespeare%27s_Dog" title="Shakespeare's Dog">Shakespeare's Dog</a></i> (1983)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Josef_%C5%A0kvoreck%C3%BD" title="Josef Škvorecký">Josef Škvorecký</a>, <i>The Engineer of Human Souls</i> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Atwood" title="Margaret Atwood">Margaret Atwood</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Handmaid%27s_Tale" title="The Handmaid's Tale">The Handmaid's Tale</a></i> (1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alice_Munro" title="Alice Munro">Alice Munro</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Progress_of_Love" title="The Progress of Love">The Progress of Love</a></i> (1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._T._Kelly" title="M. T. Kelly">M. T. Kelly</a>, <i>A Dream Like Mine</i> (1987)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Adams_Richards" title="David Adams Richards">David Adams Richards</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Nights_Below_Station_Street" title="Nights Below Station Street">Nights Below Station Street</a></i> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Quarrington" title="Paul Quarrington">Paul Quarrington</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Whale_Music_(novel)" title="Whale Music (novel)">Whale Music</a></i> (1989)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1990s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nino_Ricci" title="Nino Ricci">Nino Ricci</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Lives_of_the_Saints_(Ricci_novel)" title="Lives of the Saints (Ricci novel)">Lives of the Saints</a></i> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rohinton_Mistry" title="Rohinton Mistry">Rohinton Mistry</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Such_a_Long_Journey_(novel)" title="Such a Long Journey (novel)">Such a Long Journey</a></i> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Ondaatje" title="Michael Ondaatje">Michael Ondaatje</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_English_Patient" title="The English Patient">The English Patient</a></i> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carol_Shields" title="Carol Shields">Carol Shields</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Stone_Diaries" title="The Stone Diaries">The Stone Diaries</a></i> (1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rudy_Wiebe" title="Rudy Wiebe">Rudy Wiebe</a>, <i>A Discovery of Strangers</i> (1994)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greg_Hollingshead" title="Greg Hollingshead">Greg Hollingshead</a>, <i>The Roaring Girl</i> (1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guy_Vanderhaeghe" title="Guy Vanderhaeghe">Guy Vanderhaeghe</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Englishman%27s_Boy" title="The Englishman's Boy">The Englishman's Boy</a></i> (1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jane_Urquhart" title="Jane Urquhart">Jane Urquhart</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Underpainter" title="The Underpainter">The Underpainter</a></i> (1997)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diane_Schoemperlen" title="Diane Schoemperlen">Diane Schoemperlen</a>, <i>Forms of Devotion</i> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matt_Cohen_(writer)" title="Matt Cohen (writer)">Matt Cohen</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_and_After" title="Elizabeth and After">Elizabeth and After</a></i> (1999)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2000s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Ondaatje" title="Michael Ondaatje">Michael Ondaatje</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Anil%27s_Ghost" title="Anil's Ghost">Anil's Ghost</a></i> (2000)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_B._Wright" title="Richard B. Wright">Richard B. Wright</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Clara_Callan" title="Clara Callan">Clara Callan</a></i> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gloria_Sawai" title="Gloria Sawai">Gloria Sawai</a>, <i>A Song for Nettie Johnson</i> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Douglas_Glover_(writer)" title="Douglas Glover (writer)">Douglas Glover</a>, <i>Elle</i> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Miriam_Toews" title="Miriam Toews">Miriam Toews</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/A_Complicated_Kindness" title="A Complicated Kindness">A Complicated Kindness</a></i> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Gilmour_(writer)" title="David Gilmour (writer)">David Gilmour</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/A_Perfect_Night_to_Go_to_China" title="A Perfect Night to Go to China">A Perfect Night to Go to China</a></i> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Behrens_(writer)" title="Peter Behrens (writer)">Peter Behrens</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Law_of_Dreams" title="The Law of Dreams">The Law of Dreams</a></i> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Ondaatje" title="Michael Ondaatje">Michael Ondaatje</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Divisadero_(novel)" title="Divisadero (novel)">Divisadero</a></i> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nino_Ricci" title="Nino Ricci">Nino Ricci</a>, <i>The Origin of Species</i> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kate_Pullinger" title="Kate Pullinger">Kate Pullinger</a>, <i>The Mistress of Nothing</i> (2009)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2010s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dianne_Warren" title="Dianne Warren">Dianne Warren</a>, <i>Cool Water</i> (2010)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patrick_deWitt" title="Patrick deWitt">Patrick deWitt</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Sisters_Brothers" title="The Sisters Brothers">The Sisters Brothers</a></i> (2011)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Linda_Spalding" title="Linda Spalding">Linda Spalding</a>, <i>The Purchase</i> (2012)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eleanor_Catton" title="Eleanor Catton">Eleanor Catton</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Luminaries" title="The Luminaries">The Luminaries</a></i> (2013)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_King_(novelist)" title="Thomas King (novelist)">Thomas King</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Back_of_the_Turtle" title="The Back of the Turtle">The Back of the Turtle</a></i> (2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guy_Vanderhaeghe" title="Guy Vanderhaeghe">Guy Vanderhaeghe</a>, <i>Daddy Lenin and Other Stories</i> (2015)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madeleine_Thien" title="Madeleine Thien">Madeleine Thien</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Do_Not_Say_We_Have_Nothing" title="Do Not Say We Have Nothing">Do Not Say We Have Nothing</a></i> (2016)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joel_Thomas_Hynes" title="Joel Thomas Hynes">Joel Thomas Hynes</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/We%27ll_All_Be_Burnt_in_Our_Beds_Some_Night" title="We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night">We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night</a></i> (2017)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sarah_Henstra" title="Sarah Henstra">Sarah Henstra</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Red_Word" title="The Red Word">The Red Word</a></i> (2018)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joan_Thomas" title="Joan Thomas">Joan Thomas</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Five_Wives" title="Five Wives">Five Wives</a></i> (2019)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2020s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Michelle_Good" title="Michelle Good">Michelle Good</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Five_Little_Indians_(novel)" title="Five Little Indians (novel)">Five Little Indians</a></i> (2020)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norma_Dunning" title="Norma Dunning">Norma Dunning</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Tainna" title="Tainna">Tainna</a></i> (2021)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sheila_Heti" title="Sheila Heti">Sheila Heti</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Pure_Colour" title="Pure Colour">Pure Colour</a></i> (2022)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anuja_Varghese" title="Anuja Varghese">Anuja Varghese</a>, <i>Chrysalis</i> (2023)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jordan_Abel" title="Jordan Abel">Jordan Abel</a>, <i>Empty Spaces</i> (2024)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="World_Fantasy_Award—Collection" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist 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class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Worse_Things_Waiting" title="Worse Things Waiting">Worse Things Waiting</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Manly_Wade_Wellman" title="Manly Wade Wellman">Manly Wade Wellman</a> (1975)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Enquiries_of_Doctor_Eszterhazy" title="The Enquiries of Doctor Eszterhazy">The Enquiries of Doctor Eszterhazy</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Avram_Davidson" title="Avram Davidson">Avram Davidson</a> (1976)</li> <li><i>Frights</i> by Kirby McCauley (1977)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Murgunstrumm_and_Others" title="Murgunstrumm and Others">Murgunstrumm and Others</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Hugh_B._Cave" title="Hugh B. Cave">Hugh B. Cave</a> (1978)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Shadows_(anthology)" title="Shadows (anthology)">Shadows</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Charles_L._Grant" title="Charles L. Grant">Charles L. Grant</a> (1979)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Amazons!" title="Amazons!">Amazons!</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Jessica_Amanda_Salmonson" title="Jessica Amanda Salmonson">Jessica Amanda Salmonson</a> (1980)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dark_Forces_(book)" title="Dark Forces (book)">Dark Forces</a></i> by Kirby McCauley (1981)</li> <li><i>The Dark Country</i> by <a href="/wiki/Terri_Windling" title="Terri Windling">Terri Windling</a> and Mark Alan Arnold (1982)</li> <li><i>Nightmare Seasons</i> by <a href="/wiki/Charles_L._Grant" title="Charles L. Grant">Charles L. Grant</a> (1983)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/High_Spirits_(short_story_collection)" title="High Spirits (short story collection)">High Spirits</a></i> by <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Robertson Davies</a> (1984)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Books_of_Blood" title="Books of Blood">Books of Blood, Vols. I-III</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Clive_Barker" title="Clive Barker">Clive Barker</a> (1985)</li> <li><i>Imaginary Lands</i> by <a href="/wiki/Robin_McKinley" title="Robin McKinley">Robin McKinley</a> (1986)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tales_of_the_Quintana_Roo" title="Tales of the Quintana Roo">Tales of the Quintana Roo</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/James_Tiptree_Jr." title="James Tiptree Jr.">James Tiptree Jr.</a> (1987)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Jaguar_Hunter" title="The Jaguar Hunter">The Jaguar Hunter</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Lucius_Shepard" title="Lucius Shepard">Lucius Shepard</a> (1988)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Angry_Candy" title="Angry Candy">Angry Candy</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Harlan_Ellison" title="Harlan Ellison">Harlan Ellison</a> / <i><a href="/wiki/Storeys_from_the_Old_Hotel" title="Storeys from the Old Hotel">Storeys from the Old Hotel</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Gene_Wolfe" title="Gene Wolfe">Gene Wolfe</a> (1989, tie)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Richard_Matheson" title="Richard Matheson">Richard Matheson: Collected Stories</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Richard_Matheson" title="Richard Matheson">Richard Matheson</a> (1990)</li> <li><i>The Start of the End of It All and Other Stories</i> by <a href="/wiki/Carol_Emshwiller" title="Carol Emshwiller">Carol Emshwiller</a> (1991)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Ends_of_the_Earth_(Shepard_stories)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Ends of the Earth (Shepard stories)">The Ends of the Earth</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Lucius_Shepard" title="Lucius Shepard">Lucius Shepard</a> (1992)</li> <li><i>The Sons of Noah & Other Stories</i> by <a href="/wiki/Jack_Cady" title="Jack Cady">Jack Cady</a> (1993)</li> <li><i>Alone with the Horrors</i> by <a href="/wiki/Ramsey_Campbell" title="Ramsey Campbell">Ramsey Campbell</a> (1994)</li> <li><i>The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians and A Conflagration Artist</i> by <a href="/wiki/Bradley_Denton" title="Bradley Denton">Bradley Denton</a> (1995)</li> <li><i>The Grass Princess</i> by <a href="/wiki/Gwyneth_Jones_(novelist)" title="Gwyneth Jones (novelist)">Gwyneth Jones</a> (1996)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Wall_of_the_Sky,_the_Wall_of_the_Eye" title="The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye">The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Lethem" title="Jonathan Lethem">Jonathan Lethem</a> (1997)</li> <li><i>The Throne of Bones</i> by <a href="/wiki/Brian_McNaughton" title="Brian McNaughton">Brian McNaughton</a> (1998)</li> <li><i>Black Glass</i> by <a href="/wiki/Karen_Joy_Fowler" title="Karen Joy Fowler">Karen Joy Fowler</a> (1999)</li> <li><i>Moonlight and Vines</i> by <a href="/wiki/Charles_de_Lint" title="Charles de Lint">Charles de Lint</a> / <i>Reave the Just and Other Tales</i> by <a href="/wiki/Stephen_R._Donaldson" title="Stephen R. Donaldson">Stephen R. Donaldson</a> (2000, tie)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2001–present</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i>Beluthahatchie and Other Stories</i> by <a href="/wiki/Andy_Duncan_(writer)" title="Andy Duncan (writer)">Andy Duncan</a> (2001)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Skin_Folk" title="Skin Folk">Skin Folk</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Nalo_Hopkinson" title="Nalo Hopkinson">Nalo Hopkinson</a> (2002)</li> <li><i>The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories</i> by <a href="/wiki/Jeffrey_Ford" title="Jeffrey Ford">Jeffrey Ford</a> (2003)</li> <li><i>Bibliomancy</i> by <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Hand" title="Elizabeth Hand">Elizabeth Hand</a> (2004)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Black_Juice" title="Black Juice">Black Juice</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Margo_Lanagan" title="Margo Lanagan">Margo Lanagan</a> (2005)</li> <li><i>The Keyhole Opera</i> by <a href="/wiki/Bruce_Holland_Rogers" title="Bruce Holland Rogers">Bruce Holland Rogers</a> (2006)</li> <li><i>Map of Dreams</i> by <a href="/wiki/M._Rickert" title="M. Rickert">M. Rickert</a> (2007)</li> <li><i>Tiny Deaths</i> by <a href="/wiki/Robert_Shearman" title="Robert Shearman">Robert Shearman</a> (2008)</li> <li><i>The Drowned Life</i> by <a href="/wiki/Jeffrey_Ford" title="Jeffrey Ford">Jeffrey Ford</a> (2009)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/There_Once_Lived_a_Woman_Who_Tried_To_Kill_Her_Neighbor%27s_Baby:_Scary_Fairy_Tales" class="mw-redirect" title="There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried To Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales">There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried To Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Lyudmila_Petrushevskaya" title="Lyudmila Petrushevskaya">Lyudmila Petrushevskaya</a> / <i>The Best of Gene Wolfe</i> by <a href="/wiki/Gene_Wolfe" title="Gene Wolfe">Gene Wolfe</a> (2010, tie)</li> <li><i>What I Didn't See and Other Stories</i> by <a href="/wiki/Karen_Joy_Fowler" title="Karen Joy Fowler">Karen Joy Fowler</a> (2011)</li> <li><i>The Bible Repairman and Other Stories</i> by <a href="/wiki/Tim_Powers" title="Tim Powers">Tim Powers</a> (2012)</li> <li><i>Where Furnaces Burn</i> by <a href="/wiki/Joel_Lane" title="Joel Lane">Joel Lane</a> (2013)</li> <li><i>The Ape's Wife and Other Stories</i> by <a href="/wiki/Caitl%C3%ADn_R._Kiernan" title="Caitlín R. Kiernan">Caitlín R. Kiernan</a> (2014)</li> <li><i>The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings</i> by <a href="/wiki/Angela_Slatter" title="Angela Slatter">Angela Slatter</a> / <i>Gifts for the One Who Comes After</i> by Helen Marshall (2015, tie)</li> <li><i>Bone Swans</i> by <a href="/wiki/C._S._E._Cooney" title="C. S. E. Cooney">C. S. E. Cooney</a> (2016)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Natural_History_of_Hell" title="A Natural History of Hell">A Natural History of Hell</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Jeffrey_Ford" title="Jeffrey Ford">Jeffrey Ford</a> (2017)</li> <li><i>The Emerald Circus</i> by <a href="/wiki/Jane_Yolen" title="Jane Yolen">Jane Yolen</a> (2018)</li> <li><i>The Tangled Lands</i> by <a href="/wiki/Paolo_Bacigalupi" title="Paolo Bacigalupi">Paolo Bacigalupi</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tobias_S._Buckell" class="mw-redirect" title="Tobias S. Buckell">Tobias S. 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