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Hugh Garner (February 22, 1913 – June 30, 1979) was a British-born Canadian novelist.
Hugh Garner, writer (b at Batley, Eng 22 Feb 1913; d at Toronto 30 June 1979). Garner's parents immigrated to Canada in 1919 and his father abandoned the family soon after. Garner spent his youth in the poorer neighbourhoods of downtown Toronto and entered the publishing world as a newspaper copyboy.
The tough guy of Canadian letters. A fighting, hard-drinking, hard-living writer, Hugh Garner would have fit the stereotype of an American novelist in the 1920s and '30s.
Hugh Garner was a Canadian novelist. Born in England, Garner came to Canada in 1919 with his parents and was raised in Toronto. During the Great Depression, he rode the rails in both Canada and the United States and then joined the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War.
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Who was Hugh Garner? Garner (1913–1979) was a Canadian novelist, short story writer, and journalist. Urban life of the lower-middle classes is the background for such novels as...
Apr 28, 2017 · While ensuring him a wide readership during his lifetime, as well as a certain amount of critical acclaim — his short-story collection Hugh Garner's Best Stories won the prestigious Governor General's Award in 1963 — it led the majority of critics to dismiss his work as uninspired and workmanlike.
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The story of Hugh Garner, prolific writer of books and short stories throughout the middle years of this century, needed to be told.
