Hugh MacLennan

John Hugh MacLennan (1907–1990) was a Canadian novelist, essayist and academic whose work chronicled and critiqued modern Canadian life. Born in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, he survived the Halifax Explosion as a child and later studied at Dalhousie, Oriel College (Oxford) and Princeton. His major novels — including Barometer Rising (1941), Two Solitudes (1945) and The Watch That Ends the Night (1958) — helped define 20th-century Canadian literature. He won multiple Governor General's Awards and taught in the Department of English at McGill University.