Robertson Davies Writer

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 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.

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Robertson Davies
Birth dateAugust 28, 1913
Birth place
Thamesville
Date of deathDecember 02, 1995
Place of death
Orangeville Ontario

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