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", a term Davies gladly accepted for himself. Davies was the founding Master of Massey College, a graduate residential college associated with the University of Toronto.
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Fiction, Fiction, general, Authorship, History and criticism, Canadian fiction (fictional works by one author), Canadian literature, Theater, American literature, Canada, fiction, Books and reading, History, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Canadian Authors, Davies, robertson, 1913-1995, Authors, Canadian (English), Canadian Ghost stories, Canadian drama, Literature, Drama, Fiction (fictional works by one author), Large type books, Appreciation, Books, Canadian Didactic fiction, Cornish, francis (fictitious character), fictionPeople
Robertson Davies (1913-1995), William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Robertson Davies (1913-), Aesop, Stephen Leacock (1869-1944), Ben Jonson (1573?-1637), Graham Greene (1904-1991), Vincent Massey (1887-1967), W. L. Grant (1872-1935)ID Numbers
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- Integrated Authority File (GND): 118913387
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- Library of Congress Names: n50035476
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- VIAF: 110344377
- Wikidata: Q545375
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- William Robertson Davies