Franklin D. McDowell
Franklin D. McDowell | |
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Born | 1888 (1888) Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada |
Died | 19 July 1965(1965-07-19) (aged 76–77) Orangeville, Ontario, Canada |
Occupation | Journalist, novelist, public relations |
Nationality | Canadian |
Notable works | The Champlain Road |
Spouse | Kathleen McDowell |
Franklin Davey McDowell (1888 – 19 July 1965) was a Canadian writer, whose novel The Champlain Road won the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction in 1939.[1]
Beginning his career in 1909 as a journalist with The Toronto World, the Toronto Mail and Empire and the Winnipeg Free Press, McDowell also published a number of short stories.[2] He edited The Sailor, the magazine of the Navy League of Canada, before joining Canadian National Railways in 1923. He worked there in public relations until retirement in 1953; while in that job he travelled on the first Canadian train where telephone calls were possible.[1]
The Champlain Road was about the martyrdom of Jean de Brébeuf and has been described as "a grandiloquent historical romance set in the mid-17th century, about conversion and sacrifice among the Iroquois and Huron."[2] His other novel, Forges of Freedom, was about Wat Tyler.[1] In a review, William Arthur Deacon said it was "a full-bodied, powerful novel, an incalculable advance from The Champlain Road.... The inherent strength and vitality of Forges of Freedom, more than its tremendous physical and emotional range and its author's meticulous care for detail, places McDowell among the foremost Canadian writers."[3] Its first edition included illustrations by Franklin Carmichael.
Bibliography
- The Champlain Road (1939)
- Forges of Freedom (1943)
Notes
- ^ a b c The Globe and Mail 1965.
- ^ a b New 2002.
- ^ Deacon 1943.
References
- "Franklin Davey McDowell: Won Fiction Award For Historical Work". The Globe and Mail. Toronto. 20 July 1965. p. 4.
- Deacon, William Arthur (11 December 1943). "Foundations of Our British Freedom Yield Novel of Timely Significance". The Globe and Mail. Toronto. p. 16.
- New, William H. (2002). "McDowell, Franklin Davey". Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
External links
- Works by Franklin McDowell at Faded Page (Canada)
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- Laura Salverson, The Dark Weaver (1937)
- Gwethalyn Graham, Swiss Sonata (1938)
- Franklin D. McDowell, The Champlain Road (1939)
- Ringuet, Thirty Acres (1940)
- Alan Sullivan, Three Came to Ville Marie (1941)
- G. Herbert Sallans, Little Man (1942)
- Thomas Head Raddall, The Pied Piper of Dipper Creek (1943)
- Gwethalyn Graham, Earth and High Heaven (1944)
- Hugh MacLennan, Two Solitudes (1945)
- Winifred Bambrick, Continental Revue (1946)
- Gabrielle Roy, The Tin Flute (1947)
- Hugh MacLennan, The Precipice (1948)
- Philip Child, Mr. Ames Against Time (1949)
- Germaine Guèvremont, The Outlander (1950)
- Morley Callaghan, The Loved and the Lost (1951)
- David Walker, The Pillar (1952)
- David Walker, Digby (1953)
- Igor Gouzenko, The Fall of a Titan (1954)
- Lionel Shapiro, The Sixth of June (1955)
- Adele Wiseman, The Sacrifice (1956)
- Gabrielle Roy, Street of Riches (1957)
- Colin McDougall, Execution (1958)
- Hugh MacLennan, The Watch That Ends the Night (1959)
- Brian Moore, The Luck of Ginger Coffey (1960)
- Malcolm Lowry, Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place (1961)
- Kildare Dobbs, Running to Paradise (1962)
- Hugh Garner, Hugh Garner's Best Stories (1963)
- Douglas LePan, The Deserter (1964)
- [no award] (1965)
- Margaret Laurence, A Jest of God (1966)
- [no award] (1967)
- Alice Munro, Dance of the Happy Shades (1968)
- Robert Kroetsch, The Studhorse Man (1969)
- Dave Godfrey, The New Ancestors (1970)
- Mordecai Richler, St. Urbain's Horseman (1971)
- Robertson Davies, The Manticore (1972)
- Rudy Wiebe, The Temptations of Big Bear (1973)
- Margaret Laurence, The Diviners (1974)
- Brian Moore, The Great Victorian Collection (1975)
- Marian Engel, Bear (1976)
- Timothy Findley, The Wars (1977)
- Alice Munro, Who Do You Think You Are? (1978)
- Jack Hodgins, The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne (1979)
- George Bowering, Burning Water (1980)
- Mavis Gallant, Home Truths: Selected Canadian Stories (1981)
- Guy Vanderhaeghe, Man Descending (1982)
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- Josef Škvorecký, The Engineer of Human Souls (1984)
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- Alice Munro, The Progress of Love (1986)
- M. T. Kelly, A Dream Like Mine (1987)
- David Adams Richards, Nights Below Station Street (1988)
- Paul Quarrington, Whale Music (1989)
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- Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient (1992)
- Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries (1993)
- Rudy Wiebe, A Discovery of Strangers (1994)
- Greg Hollingshead, The Roaring Girl (1995)
- Guy Vanderhaeghe, The Englishman's Boy (1996)
- Jane Urquhart, The Underpainter (1997)
- Diane Schoemperlen, Forms of Devotion (1998)
- Matt Cohen, Elizabeth and After (1999)
- Michael Ondaatje, Anil's Ghost (2000)
- Richard B. Wright, Clara Callan (2001)
- Gloria Sawai, A Song for Nettie Johnson (2002)
- Douglas Glover, Elle (2003)
- Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness (2004)
- David Gilmour, A Perfect Night to Go to China (2005)
- Peter Behrens, The Law of Dreams (2006)
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- Nino Ricci, The Origin of Species (2008)
- Kate Pullinger, The Mistress of Nothing (2009)
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- Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries (2013)
- Thomas King, The Back of the Turtle (2014)
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- Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing (2016)
- Joel Thomas Hynes, We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night (2017)
- Sarah Henstra, The Red Word (2018)
- Joan Thomas, Five Wives (2019)
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- Norma Dunning, Tainna (2021)
- Sheila Heti, Pure Colour (2022)
- Anuja Varghese, Chrysalis (2023)
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