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William Robertson Davies CC OOnt FRSL FRSC (28 August 1913 – 2 December 1995) was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor.
Robertson Davies has 161 books on Goodreads with 150488 ratings. Robertson Davies’s most popular book is Fifth Business (The Deptford Trilogy, #1).
Robertson Davies (born Aug. 28, 1913, Thamesville, Ont., Can.—died Dec. 2, 1995, Orangeville, Ont.) was a novelist and playwright whose works offer penetrating observations on Canadian provincialism and prudery.
Apr 2, 2008 · A Companion of the Order of Canada, winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award, and founding master of Massey College at the University of Toronto, Robertson Davies is widely acknowledged as one of Canada’s most brilliant and influential essayists and novelists.
Dec 2, 1995 · William Robertson Davies, CC, FRSC, FRSL (died in Orangeville, Ontario) 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.
Mar 17, 2003 · All mortals are replaceable, runs the modern mantra, betraying the ethic of programmed obsolescence that has come to dominate our culture. But there are exceptions, and one of them - Robertson Davies - died last week, leaving a gap in the Canadian conscience that can never be filled.
Canadian author Robertson Davies was born in Thamesville, Ontario. A novelist, playwright, literary critic and essayist, he received numerous awards for his work.
