List of Canadian writers

This is a list of Canadian literary figures, including poets, novelists, children's writers, essayists, and scholars.

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• Milton Acorn (1923-1986) poet, has published 18 volumes of poetry
• Ian Adams (born 1937)
• Charlotte Vale Allen (also known as Katherine Marlowe) (born 1941) romantic novels, expert on child abuse
• Grant Allen (1848-1899), The Woman Who Did
• Sidney Allinson
• George Amabile (born 1936)
• Rod Anderson
• Hubert Aquin (1929-1977) modernist Québécois novelist
• Gilles Archambault (born 1933)
• Jeannette Armstrong (born 1948)
• David Arnason
• Joanne Arnott (born 1960)
• Margaret Atwood (born 1939) The Handmaid's Tale (1985), Alias Grace, Surfacing
• Phillipe-Ignace Francois Aubert du Gaspe (1814-1841), author of the first French Canadian novel.
• Margaret Avison (born 1918) poet, has published 8 volumes of poetry