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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• Agnes Maule Machar
• Ann-Marie MacDonald
• Bernell MacDonald, (born 1950)
• Hugh MacDonald
• Jake MacDonald
• Gwendolyn MacEwen (1941-1987)
• Isabel Ecclestone Mackay
• Hugh MacLennan (1907-1990) novelist and essayist, wrote Two Solitudes and Barometer Rising
• Michael MacLennan
• Alistair MacLeod, (born 1936)
• Elizabeth Macleod, biographer
• Antonine Maillet (born 1929), Acadian author, educator
• Kevin Major (born 1949)
• Eli Mandel
• Miriam Mandel
• David Manicom (born 1960) poet, novelist, diplomat.
• Lee Maracle (born 1950) poet/novelist from the Squamish First Nation. She was one of the first Aboriginal people to be published in the early 1970s.
• Daphne Marlatt (born 1942)
• John Marlyn, (1912-1985)
• David Margoshes (born 1941)
• Nicole Markotic
• Yann Martel, (born 1963), 2002 Booker Prize Winner
• Carol Matas (born 1949)
• Shirlee Smith Matheson
• Steve McCaffery
• Nellie McClung, crusading journalist, MP
• John McCrae, (1872-1918), ("In Flanders' Fields")
• David McFadden
• James McIntyre, (1827-1906), the "Cheese Poet," known as the worst poet in Canadian history
• Don McKay poet
• Rhonda McLean
• Marshall McLuhan, (1911-1980), English professor and media studies author
• Susan McMaster
• Robert McNeil
• Sylvia McNicoll
• John Metcalf (born 1938)
• Anne Michaels
• Christine Michels
• Roy Miki
• Rohinton Mistry, (born 1952), Such a Long Journet, A Fine Balance
• Jane Mitchell
• Jared Mitchell
• W.O. Mitchell (1914-1998), Who has Seen the Wind
• Lucy Maud Montgomery, (1874-1942), Anne of Green Gables
• Susanna Moodie (nee Strickland), (1803-1885), Roughing it in the Bush
• Brian Moore (1921-1999)
• Jeffrey Moore (born 1952)
• Lisa Moore
• Keith Moreau, (born 1951), writer and illustrator of children's books like ABC Fun Things Book
• Edythe Morahan de Lauzon, poet
• Pierre Morency (born 1942), poet and playwright
• Bernice Morgan
• Donna Morrissey
• Kim Morrissey
• Colin Morton
• Daniel David Moses, Aboriginal poet and playwright
• Tara Moss (born 1973) - wrote Fetish
• Erin Moure
• Farley Mowat, (born 1921) Never Cry Wolf, My Discovery of America
• Karen Mulholland
• Robert Munsch (born 1945), American born writer of children's stories
• Allison Muri
• Alice Munro, (born 1931)
• Jim Munroe
• John Murrell
• Jai Murugan
• Susan Musgrave (born 1951), poet and novelist