Judith Skelton Grant (born 1941) is a

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writer, editor and biographer.

Life

Grant has written about Leonard Cohen but she is better known for her editing of collections by

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Robertson Davies William Robertson Davies (28 August 1913 – 2 December 1995) was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. He was one of Canada's best known and most popular authors and one of its most distinguished " men of letters" ...

, as well as her biography of Davies, ''Robertson Davies: Man of Myth''. She most recently wrote "A Meeting of Minds: The Massey College Story", a history of the college where Davies served as the first Master.

Selected bibliography

As author

* ''The Nature of Duty and the Problem of Passion in the Works of George Eliot'' — 1974 * ''Mavis Gallant and Her Works'' — 1989. * ''Robertson Davies: Man of Myth'', Viking, Toronto, 1994. (hard cover); (paperback) * ''A Meeting of Minds: The Massey College Story'', University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2015.

As editor

* '' The Enthusiasms of Robertson Davies'' — 1979; revised 1990. * '' The Well-Tempered Critic: One man's view of theatre and letters in Canada'' — 1981. * ''

For Your Eye Alone ''For Your Eye Alone'', published by McClelland and Stewart in 2000, is a collection of letters by Canadian novelist Robertson Davies. Editor Judith Skelton Grant provides a selection of letters written by Davies from the period starting in 1976 ...

: Letters 1976-1995'' — 1999. * '' Discoveries: Early letters 1938-1975'' — 2002.

References

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