Robertson Davies Author

One of Canada's most popular authors, Robertson Davies was born in Thamesville, Ontario, on August 28, 1913, and grew up there and in Renfrew and Kingston; he was educated at Upper Canada College, Queen's University, and Balliol college, Oxford. Davies has received honourary degrees from twenty-one Canadian and American universities, Trinity College, Dublin and Oxford University, and was the first Canadian member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature; Honourary Fellow, Balliol College; Member of the Order of Ontario; and a Companion of the Order of Canada.