MacLennan, Hugh

Hugh MacLennan was born in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia in 1907. A novelist and essayist, he became a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford and later completed a PhD in classics at Princeton. He won the Governor General's Award more often than any other writer: three times for fiction and twice for non-fiction. His best-known novels are "Barometer Rising" (1941), "Two Solitudes" (1945), and "The Watch that Ends the Night" (1959). He died in 1990.