William Arthur Deacon
{{Short description|Canadian literary critic and editor (1890–1977)}}
William Arthur Deacon (6 April 1890 — 5 August 1977) was a Canadian literary critic and editor.
Biography
Deacon was in Pembroke, Ontario on 6 April 1890.
He studied in Winnipeg, Manitoba to be a lawyer, but eventually became a book review editor, and "aimed to become the first full-time book reviewer in Canada".{{cite book|last=Rubio|first=Mary Henley|title=Lucy Maud Montgomery: The Gift of Wings|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9uRAx1XGpx0C&pg=PA353|date=18 February 2011|publisher=Doubleday Canada|isbn=978-0-385-67481-2|pages=353–}} He worked for the Winnipeg Free Press (1921), Saturday Night (1922–28), The Mail and Empire (1928–36) and The Globe and Mail (1936–61). He died on 5 August 1977 in Toronto.{{cite web|title=William Arthur Deacon|url=http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/william-arthur-deacon/|website=thecanadianencyclopedia.ca|accessdate=9 January 2015}}
Selected works
- Pens and Pirates (1923)
- Poteen and Other Essays (1926)
- The Four Jameses (1927)
- My vision of Canada (1933)
References
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Category:People from Pembroke, Ontario
Category:Canadian literary critics
Category:Writers from Winnipeg
Category:The Globe and Mail people
Category:20th-century Canadian male writers
Category:20th-century Canadian essayists
Category:Canadian male essayists
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