The Merry Heart
| Robertson Davies | |
|---|---|
| Born |
28 August 1913 Thamesville, Ontario, Canada |
| Died | December 2, 1995 (aged 82) Orangeville, Ontario, Canada |
| Occupation | Journalist, playwright, professor, critic, novelist |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Alma mater |
Queen's University (did not graduate) Balliol College, Oxford |
| Genre | novels, plays, essays and reviews |
| Notable works | The Deptford Trilogy, The Cornish Trilogy, The Salterton Trilogy |
| Spouse | Brenda Ethel Davies (m. 1940, 1917-2012) |
| Children | Jennifer Surridge, Miranda Davies, Rosamond Bailey |
William Robertson Davies, CC, OOnt, FRSC, FRSL (August 28, 1913– December 2, 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 "men of letters", a term Davies is variously said to have both gladly accepted for himself and to have detested. Davies was the founding Master of Massey College, a graduate residential college associated with the University of Toronto.
Davies was born in Thamesville, Ontario, the third son of William Rupert Davies and Florence Sheppard McKay. Growing up, Davies was surrounded by books and lively language. His father, Senator William Rupert Davies, was a newspaperman from Welshpool, Wales, 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.
He spent his formative years in Renfrew, Ontario (Blairlogie in his novel What's Bred in the Bone); many of the novel's characters are named after families he knew there. He attended Upper Canada College in Toronto from 1926 to 1932 and while there attended services at the Church of St. Mary Magdalene. He would later leave the Presbyterian Church and join Anglicanism over objections to Calvinist theology. Davies later used his experience of the ceremonial of High Mass at St. Mary Magdalene's in his novel The Cunning Man.
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