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Mavis Gallant
Canadian writer (–)
Mavis Leslie de Trafford Gallant, CC (néeYoung; 11 August &#; 18 February ), was a Canadian writer who spent much of her life and career in France.[1] Best known as a short story writer, she also published novels, plays and essays.[1]
Personal life
[edit]Gallant was born in Montreal, Quebec, the only child of Albert Stewart Roy de Trafford Young, a Canadian furniture salesman and painter who was the son of an officer in the British Army,[2] and his wife, Benedictine Wiseman. Young died in of kidney disease,[2] and his widow soon remarried and moved to New York, leaving their daughter behind with a guardian.[1] Gallant did not learn of her father's death for several years and later told The New York Times: "I had a mother who should not have had children, and it's as simple as that."[3]
Gallant was educated at 17 public, private, and convent schools in the United States and Canada.[3] She spent most of the years – in and around New York City, the setting for many of her earlier stories.[4]
She married John Gallant, a Winnipeg musician, in [1] The couple divorced in [5] According to Gallant's biographer, the marriage was "briefer t
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Bill Richardson Rounds Up Mavis Gallant
I liked listening to Bill Richardson on CBC years ago, and so my ears perked up when I heard him talking to Shelagh Rogers (The Next Chapter) in June, about an online diary that he’d started, involving Mavis Gallant. Readers of Canadian Writers Abroad know that Mavis Gallant is one of the inspirations behind the site’s launch ten years ago, and she has long been one of my favourite authors. All the more intriguing.
Richardson shares a birth date of August 11 with Mavis Gallant, and were she still alive, Gallant would be turning this month. The coincidence of their birthdays is part of Richardson’s personal and quirky approach to the diaries. But he has a more serious intent. He wants her to be celebrated as a great Canadian author ought to be celebrated at their centenary, and is quite disappointed that no fanfare seems to be in the works. (Much as I felt when the February death of Christopher Plummer was not followed by front page memorials or a series to rescreen the films he’d been in, not by any cinema nor by the CBC or NFB, to my knowledge, and this outraged me, made me feel the smallness of culture’s importance in Canada.) And so I completely understand what Richardson is getting at when he introduces his diary on Apri