List of Canadians

This is a list of well-known Canadians.

Authors

• Milton Acorn, (1923-1986), poet, has published 18 volumes of poetry
• Gilles Archambault - novelist, essayist, critic
• Margaret Atwood, (born 1939), poet, novelist, essayist
• Margaret Avison, (born 1918), poet, has published 8 volumes of poetry
• Pierre Berton, (1920-2004), popularizer of Canadian history, TV personality, columnist
• Earle Birney, (1904-1995), anti-conventional poet, also wrote novels, short stories, drama
• Bill Bissett, (born 1939), poet, famous for incorporating sound and the visual into poetry
• Di Brandt, (born 1952), Manitoba poet and literary critic
• Morley Callaghan, (1903-1990), novelist, short story writer
• Bliss Carman, (1861-1929), poet, wrote Low Tide on Grand Pre
• Roch Carrier, (born 1937), author
• Wayson Choy, author
• Leonard Cohen, (born 1934), poet/singer
• Douglas Coupland, (born 1961), author
• Robertson Davies, (1913-1995), author
• Timothy Findley, (1930-2002), author
• Louis Fréchette, (1839-1908), poet, essayist, journalist, dramatist
• Mavis Gallant, (born 1922), author
• William Gibson, (born 1948), author, Neuromancer
• Barbara Gowdy, The Romantic; The White Bone and short stories
• Gwethalyn Graham, (1913-1965), wrote first Canadian novel to top the United States bestseller list
• Arthur Hailey, (born 1920), author of 4 New York Times #1 bestsellers
• G.R. Hambley, (born 1958), poet renowned for "The Passing"
• Louis Hémon, (1880-1913), novelist and journalist, Maria Chapdelaine
• Jack Hodgins, writer, novelist
• Nancy Huston, (born 1953), author
• Adel Iskandar, (born 1977), author, Al-Jazeera
• J. Robert Janes, (born 1932), writer
• Naomi Klein, anti-globalization activist
• Gordon Korman, children's author
• Margaret Laurence, (1926-1987), author
• Stephen Leacock, (1869-1944), author/humorist
• Dennis Lee, writer of children's poetry
• Hugh MacLennan, (1907-1990), novelist and essayist, wrote Two Solitudes and Barometer Rising
• Alistair MacLeod, (born 1936), writer, novelist
• Yann Martel, (born 1963), 2002 Booker Prize Winner
• Leslie McFarlane (1902-1977), wrote Hardy Boys books
• Rohinton Mistry, (born 1952), author
• W.O. Mitchell, author, Who has Seen the Wind
• Lucy Maude Montgomery, (1874-1942), Anne of Green Gables
• Susanna Moodie, (1803-1885), Roughing it in the Bush
• Farley Mowat, (born 1921), Never Cry Wolf, My Discovery of America
• Alice Munro, (born 1931), short story writer
• Robert Munsch - American-born writer of children's books
• Michael Ondaatje, (born 1943), author
• Jean Baptiste Proulx, (1846-1904), dramatist and essayist
• David Adams Richards, (born 1950), writer, novelist
• Mordecai Richler, (1931-2001), author
• Sinclair Ross, author, As for Me and My House
• Gabrielle Roy, (1909-1983), author
• Margaret Marshall Saunders, (1861-1947), author, "Beautiful Joe"
• Robert W. Service, "The Shooting of Dan McGrew", "The Cremation of Sam McGee", "Songs of a Sourdough"
• Carol Shields, (1935-2003), author
• Elizabeth Smart, Author, "By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept"
• Samuel Strickland, (1804-1867), Twenty-seven Years in Canada West
• Catharine Parr Traill, (1802-1899), Life in the Backwoods of Canada
• Michel Tremblay, (born 1942), author, playwright, poet
• Jane Urquhart, (born 1949), novelist
• George Woodcock, (1912-1995), poet, critic and anarchist author of Anarchism

See also List of Canadian writers for a much more extensive list

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