About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: Guy Gavriel Kay, W. O. Mitchell, Eli Mandel, Anne Szumigalski, Ross King, Douglas Hill, Daniel Scott Tysdal, Charles Mair, Habeeb Salloum, Sandra Birdsell, Allan Fotheringham, Maria Campbell, Mors Kochanski, Ken Mitchell, Leslie Hall Pinder, Eleanor Coerr, Douglas Wilson, Elliott Leyton, Harvey Oberfeld, Edith Fowke, Savella Stechishin, Guy Vanderhaeghe, Hilda Neatby, Ven Begamudre, Sinclair Ross, Barbara Nickel, Freda Ahenakew, Paul Yee, Gail Bowen, Cora Taylor, Arthur Slade, Jorge Ignacio Castillo, Janice Acoose, Karen Solie, Ralph Allen, C. P. Lyons, Erika Ritter, Gayleen Froese, Linda Aksomitis, Howard Adams, L. R. Wright, Bill Waiser, Djanet Sears, Marjorie Harris, Joy Coghill, Glenda Goertzen, Michael Helm, Joanna Glass, Allan Casey, Lee Gowan, Dennis Cooley, Anthony Bidulka, Gail Robinson, Mark Steven Morton. Excerpt: Eli Mandel (December 3, 1922 - September 3, 1992) was a Canadian poet, editor of many Canadian anthologies, and literary academic. Ten years prior to his death, Eli Mandel's passing would have been significant news; however, because of a series of strokes that left him unable to write, Mandel had long since gone unrecognized. He was born Elias Wolf Mandel in Estevan, Saskatchewan, Canada to Russian Jewish parents who had emigrated from the Ukraine, and grew up the Canadian prairies during the Great Depression. After a job working for a pharmacist who, landed him a position serving in Canada's Medical Corps during World War II, it has been said Mandel returned a forever emotionally distraught man who was destined to live the rest of his life without a sense of belonging. This helps explain the alienation that is illustrated throughout his writings. He studied English at the University of Saskatchewan attaining a Master of Arts degree in 1950. His further studies at the University of Toronto earne...
