Raymond Knister was born on 27 May 1899 in Ruscomb, Ontario and studied at Victoria College, University of Toronto, and Iowa State University. He worked on his father's farm near Blenheim, Ontario before moving to Iowa City in 1923 where he was an associate editor of a literary magazine. Knister lived in Chicago briefly, then returned to Canada in 1924. On 29 August 1932, Knister drowned while swimming in Lake St. Clair.

Books by Raymond Knister

	1929 White Narcissus (novel)
	1934 My Star Predominant (novel)
	1949 Collected Poems of Raymond Knister
	1972 Selected Stories of Raymond Knister
	1975 Raymond Knister: Poems, Stories and Essays
	1976 The First Day of Spring and Other Prose
	2003 After Exile
	2006 There Was a Mr. Cristi (novel)
	2007 Taxi Driver (novel)
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Poems Online

• Change
• Plowman's Song
• The Quiet Snow
• Reverie: The Orchard on the Slope

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Added 22 March 2008.
Updated 07 January 2012.