Margaret Laurence and Jack McClelland, Letters

Margaret Laurence and Jack McClelland--one of Canada’s most beloved writers and one of Canada’s most significant publishers--enjoyed an unusual rapport. In this collection of annotated letters, readers gain rare insight into the private side of these literary icons. Their correspondence reveals a professional relationship that evolved into deep friendship over a period of enormous cultural change. Both were committed to the idea of Canadian writing; in a very real sense, their mutual and separate work helped bring ＂Canadian Literature＂ into being. With its insider’s view of the book business from the late 1950s to the mid-1980s, Margaret Laurence and Jack McClelland, Letters presents a valuable piece of Canadian literary history curated and annotated by Davis and Morra. This is essential reading for all those interested in Canada’s literary culture.

Laura K. Davis is a tenured faculty member who specializes in Canadian literature at Red Deer College, Alberta.

Linda M. Morra is professor of Canadian literature and Canadian studies at Bishop’s University in Sherbrooke, Quebec.