Literary Titans Revisited

Auteur

Anne Urbancic is Mary Rowell Jackman Professor of Humanities at Victoria College (University of Toronto). Along with Earle Toppings, her project collaborators are the Northrop Frye Centre Undergraduate Fellows of 2015-2016. She lives in Toronto.

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As the sixties became the seventies, legendary interviewer Earle Toppings recorded sixteen emerging Canadian writers who would go on to become icons of CanLit. Presented here alongside critical notes and the recollections of Toppings himself, the transcripts of these recordings are a window on the early careers of Canada's literary masters.

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Introduction
Margaret Laurence
Morley Callaghan
Hugh Garner
Hugh MacLennan
Mordecai Richler
Sinclair Ross
Dorothy Livesay
Gwendolyn MacEwen
Al Purdy
Earle Birney
F.R. Scott
Irving Layton
Miriam Waddington
Raymond Souster
Eli Mandel
James Reaney
Afterword: Interview with Dr. Earle Toppings
Acknowledgements
Permissions
Notes
Index