Robertson Davies
- Conversations with Robertson Davies (1989) (Edited by J. Madison Davies) (ISBN 0-87805-384-0)
- The Quotable Robertson Davies: The Wit and Wisdom of the Master (2005) (collected by James Channing Shaw)
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Davies in popular culture
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- Davies is one of the authors mentioned in the Moxy Früvous song "My Baby Loves a Bunch of Authors". The line "Who needs a shave? He's Robertson Davies" makes reference to his long white beard.
- In The Sacred Art of Stealing, Christopher Brookmyre (an admirer of Davies) has a character refer to a painting of "The Marriage at Cana", saying that some experts consider it to be a fake. This is a reference to a decidedly fake (although excellent) picture painted by Francis Cornish, the protagonist in What's Bred in the Bone. Many of the characters in Brookmyre's novels are named after characters in Davies's books.
- John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany contains several references to Davies' novels, including strong echoes of Fifth Business; for example, the narrators of both novels work as teachers in Toronto in private schools (Bishop Strachan School in Meany and a fictionalisation of Upper Canada College in Davies's novels).
- Indie-rock band Tokyo Police Club references the gravel pit scene in The Fifth Business.
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References
- ^ Though he himself responded to Peter Gzowski's query as to whether he accepted the label, "Well, I would be delighted to accept it. In fact I think it's an entirely honourable and desirable title but you know people are beginning to despise it." J. Madison Davis (ed.), Conversations with Robertson Davies (Mississippi University Press, 1989), p.99.
- ^ Penguin USA: Book Club Reading Guides: The Cunning Man
- ^ Park named after Robertson Davies Globe and Mail, May 31, 2007.
- Grant, Judith Skelton, Robertson Davies: Man of Myth, Viking, Toronto, 1994. ISBN 0-670-82557-3 (hard cover); ISBN 0-14-011452-1 (paperback)
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External links
Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to:
- Robertson Davies's entry in The Canadian Encyclopedia
- Robertson Davies at the Internet Book List
- Robertson Davies at the Internet Movie Database
- 1989 interview with Robertson Davies by Don Swaim at Wired for Books
- Massey College in the University of Toronto
| Persondata | |
|---|---|
| NAME | Davies, William Robertson |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Canadian journalist, playwright, professor, critic, and novelist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 28 August 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Thamesville, Ontario, Canada |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2 December 1995 |
| PLACE OF DEATH | Orangeville, Ontario, Canada |
Categories: 1913 births | 1995 deaths | Canadian Anglicans | Canadian dramatists and playwrights | Canadian journalists | Canadian literary critics | Canadian newspaper editors | Canadian novelists | Canadians of Welsh descent | Companions of the Order of Canada | Converts to Anglicanism | Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada | Governor General's Award winning fiction writers | Ontario writers | Magic realism writers | People from Chatham-Kent, Ontario | Queen's University alumni | Upper Canada College alumni | Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford
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