Paul Hiebert was born on 17 July 1892 in Pilot Mound, Manitoba and grew up in Altona. He earned a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Manitoba in 1916, an M.A. in Gothic and Teutonic philology from the University of Toronto in 1917, an M.Sc. in physics and chemistry from McGill University in 1921, and a Ph.D. in chemistry in 1924, also from McGill. Hiebert taught chemistry at the University of Manitoba until his retirement in 1953 and later became a minister with the United Church. He died on 7 September 1987 in Carman, Manitoba.

Books by Paul Hiebert

	1947 Sarah Binks
	1966 Tower in Siloam
	1967 Willows Revisited
	1976 Doubting Castle: A Spiritual Autobiography
	1980 For the Birds
	1984 Not as the Scribes
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Awards

• Canada Reads
  • 2003 – Sarah Binks – Shortlisted

• Order of Canada
  • 1976 – Member

• Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour
  • 1948 – Sarah Binks – Winner

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Added 27 April 2006.
Updated 07 January 2012.