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Robertson Davies

Canada (1913 - 1995)

William Robertson Davies, CC, FRSC, FRSL, 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 sometimes said to have detested. Davies was the founding Master of Massey College, a graduate college at the University of Toronto.

Genres: Literary Fiction

Series

Salterton
   1. Tempest-Tost (1951)
   2. Leaven of Malice (1954)
   3. A Mixture of Frailties (1958)

Deptford
   1. Fifth Business (1970)
   2. The Manticore (1972)
   3. World of Wonders (1975)

Cornish
   1. The Rebel Angels (1981)
   2. What's Bred in the Bone (1985)
   3. The Lyre of Orpheus (1988)

Novels

Murther and Walking Spirits (1991)
The Cunning Man (1994)

Omnibus

Fortune, My Foe / Eros at Breakfast (1993)

Collections

   Eros at Breakfast (1949)
   High Spirits (1982)
   Robertson Davies and His Works (1985)
   At My Heart's Core and Overlaid (1991)
   Hunting Stuart and the Voice of the People (1994)
   A Gathering of Ghost Stories (1995)

Plays

Fortune, My Foe (1949)

Non fiction

   Conversations with Robertson Davies (1971) (with J Madison Davis)
   One Half of Robertson Davies (1977)
   Well-Tempered Critic (1981)
   The Mirror of Nature (1983)
   The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks (1985)
   A Voice from the Attic (1990)
   The Merry Heart (1996)
   Happy Alchemy (1997)
   For Your Eye Alone (2000)

Anthologies containing stories by Robertson Davies

The Literary Ghost (1991)

Short stories

The Ghost Who Vanished by Degrees (1982)

Awards

	World Fantasy Best Collection winner (1984) : High Spirits: A Collection of Ghost Stories
	The Man Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1986) : What's Bred in the Bone

Books about Robertson Davies