20th-century Canadian essayists

The list 20th-century Canadian essayists includes David Rakoff, Manjushree Thapa, Susan Wood (science fiction), William Guy Carr and Nguyen Ngoc Ngan. The list consists of 86 members.

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Mordecai Richler

Canadian writer (1931–2001)

Overview: Mordecai Richler CC (January 27, 1931 – July 3, 2001) was a Canadian writer. His best known works are The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959) and Barney's Version (1997). His 1970 novel St. Urbain's ...

Date of birth: 27 January 1931

Date of death: 3 July 2001

Age: 70 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Screenwriter

Gender: Male

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Jewish Canadian journalists 96T

Burials at Mount Royal Cemetery 123T

People from Le Plateau-Mont-Royal 9T
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Nguyen Ngoc Ngan

Writer

Overview: Nguyễn Ngọc Ngạn (born 9 March 1945 in Sơn Tây in Hanoi) is a Vietnamese-Canadian writer, essayist, and television personality.

Date of birth: 26 January 1945

Age: 80

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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Canadian male essayists 60T

21st-century Canadian essayists 62T

20th-century Canadian male writers 1,044T
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Marshall McLuhan

Canadian philosopher and communications scholar (1911–1980)

Overview: Herbert Marshall McLuhan CC (July 21, 1911 – December 31, 1980) was a Canadian philosopher, whose work is among the cornerstones of the study of media theory. Born in Edmonton, Alberta, and raised in ...

Date of birth: 21 July 1911

Date of death: 31 December 1980

Age: 69 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Critic

Gender: Male

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Canadian futurologists 4T

20th-century Canadian philosophers 60T

Philosophers of literature 95T
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David Rakoff

Writer

Overview: David Benjamin Rakoff (November 27, 1964 – August 9, 2012) was a Canadian-born American writer of prose and poetry based in New York City, who wrote humorous and sometimes autobiographical non-fiction ...

Date of birth: 27 November 1964

Date of death: 9 August 2012

Age: 47 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

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Canadian male essayists 60T

21st-century Canadian essayists 62T

Columbia College (New York) alumni 1,291T
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Anne Carson

Canadian poet

Overview: Anne Carson (born June 21, 1950) is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator, and professor of Classics.

Date of birth: 21 June 1950

Age: 74

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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21st-century Canadian translators 46T

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Mavis Gallant

Canadian writer

Overview: Mavis Leslie de Trafford Gallant, CC, née Young (11 August 1922 – 18 February 2014), was a Canadian writer who spent much of her life and career in France. Best known as a short story writer, she ...

Date of birth: 11 August 1922

Date of death: 18 February 2014

Age: 91 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Journalist

Gender: Female

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21st-century Canadian essayists 62T

Canadian expatriate writers 23T

21st-century Canadian women writers 944T
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William Arthur Deacon

Canadian literary critic and editor

Overview: William Arthur Deacon (6 Apr 1890 - 5 August 1977) was a Canadian literary critic and editor. Born in Pembroke, Ontario in 1890, he studied in Winnipeg, Manitoba to be a lawyer, but eventually became ...

Date of birth: 6 April 1890

Date of death: 5 August 1977

Age: 87 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Critic

Gender: Male

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Canadian male essayists 60T

Canadian male non-fiction writers 791T

20th-century Canadian non-fiction writers 249T
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Rachel Rose

Canadian writer

Overview: Rachel Rose (born September 20, 1970) is a Canadian/American poet, essayist and short story writer. She has published three collections of poetry, Giving My Body to Science, Notes on Arrival and Departure ...

Date of birth: 20 September 1970

Age: 54

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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21st-century Canadian essayists 62T

21st-century Canadian women writers 944T

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Betsy Warland

Canadian writer

Overview: Betsy Warland (born 1946) is one of Canada's leading feminist writers, and the author of a dozen books of poetry, creative nonfiction, and lyric prose. She is most widely known for her best-selling co ...

Date of birth: 1946

Age: 78

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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21st-century Canadian essayists 62T

Canadian women non-fiction writers 669T

20th-century American essayists 391T
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Charles P. B. Taylor

Canadian writer and racehorse owner

Overview: Charles Plunket Bourchier Taylor (1935–1997) was a Canadian journalist, author, essayist, and thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder.

Date of birth: 1935

Date of death: 8 July 1997

Age: 62 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Philanthropist

Gender: Male

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Canadian male essayists 60T

20th-century philanthropists 1,966T

20th-century Canadian male writers 1,044T
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Manjushree Thapa

Nepalese writer

Overview: Manjushree Thapa (Nepali: मञ्जुश्री थापा), born in Kathmandu, is a Canadian essayist, fiction writer, translator and editor of Nepali descent.

Nationality: Nepalese

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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21st-century Canadian essayists 62T

20th-century Nepalese women writers 10T

21st-century Nepalese women writers 12T
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Susan Wood (science fiction)

Canadian writer

Overview: Susan Joan Wood (August 22, 1948 – November 12, 1980) was a Canadian literary critic, professor, author and science fiction fan and editor. She was born in Ottawa, Ontario.

Date of birth: 22 August 1948

Date of death: 12 November 1980

Age: 32 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Author

Gender: Female

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Women speculative fiction editors 24T

Women literary critics 423T

Canadian speculative fiction critics 10T
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Kaushalya Bannerji

Canadian poet

Overview: Kaushalya Bannerji (born Calcutta) is a Canadian poet.

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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Canadian women non-fiction writers 669T

21st-century Canadian women writers 944T

20th-century Canadian women writers 898T
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William Guy Carr

Naval officer and conspiracy theorist

Overview: William James Guy Carr (R.D. Commander R.C.N. (R)) (2 June 1895 – 2 October 1959) was an English-born Canadian naval officer, author, conspiracy theorist, who was accused of being an antisemite.

Date of birth: 2 June 1895

Date of death: 2 October 1959

Age: 64 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Military

Gender: Male

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Canadian conspiracy theorists 15T

Canadian male essayists 60T

20th-century memoirists 804T
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A. M. Klein

Writer, journalist, lawyer

Overview: Abraham Moses Klein (14 February 1909 – 20 August 1972) was a Canadian poet, journalist, novelist, short story writer and lawyer. He has been called "one of Canada's greatest poets and a leading ...

Date of birth: 14 February 1909

Date of death: 20 August 1972

Age: 63 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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Canadian male essayists 60T

20th-century Canadian male writers 1,044T

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Bruce McCall

Writer

Overview: Bruce McCall (May 10, 1935 – May 5, 2023) was a Canadian author and illustrator, best known for his frequent contributions to The New Yorker.

Date of birth: 1935

Date of death: 5 May 2023

Age: 87 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Cartoonist

Gender: Male

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Canadian male essayists 60T

21st-century Canadian essayists 62T

20th-century Canadian male writers 1,044T
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Kalle Lasn

Estonian-Canadian film maker, author, and activist (b. 1942)

Overview: Kalle Lasn (born March 24, 1942) is an Estonian-Canadian film maker, author, magazine editor, and activist. Near the end of World War II, his family fled Estonia and Lasn spent some time in a German refugee ...

Date of birth: 24 March 1942

Age: 83

Nationality: Estonian

Occupation: Film Director

Gender: Male

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Canadian male essayists 60T

21st-century Canadian essayists 62T

20th-century Canadian male writers 1,044T
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Pauline Holdstock

Canadian writer

Overview: Pauline Holdstock is a British-Canadian novelist, essayist and short fiction writer with a focus on historical fiction. Born and raised in England, she came to Canada in 1974, and resides in Victoria ...

Date of birth: 1948

Age: 76

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Female

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21st-century Canadian essayists 62T

English women non-fiction writers 402T

21st-century Canadian women writers 944T
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Lise Bissonnette

Canadian writer and journalist

Overview: Lise Bissonnette OC OQ (born December 13, 1945) is a Canadian writer and journalist.

Date of birth: 13 December 1945

Age: 79

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Columnist

Gender: Female

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Le Devoir people 13T

Canadian women non-fiction writers 669T

Canadian non-fiction writers in French 61T
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Ian Stevenson

Canadian psychiatrist

Overview: Ian Pretyman Stevenson (October 31, 1918 – February 8, 2007) was a Canadian-born U.S. psychiatrist. He worked for the University of Virginia School of Medicine for fifty years, as chair of the department ...

Date of birth: 31 October 1918

Date of death: 8 February 2007

Age: 88 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Scientist

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Physicians from Montreal 21T

Naturalized citizens of the United States 511T

Academics from Montreal 71T