Hugh MacLennan was born 20 March 1907 in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia. In 1928, he received a B.A. Honours in Greek and Latin from Dalhousie University and a Rhodes Scholarship. He graduated from Oxford with a B.A. Third Class in Literae Humaniores in 1932 and completed his Ph.D. at Princeton in 1935. In 1954, MacLennan began teaching English part-time at McGill University, becoming a full professor in 1968. He retired in 1979 and died 7 November 1990 at his home in Montreal, Quebec.

Books by Hugh MacLennan

	1935 Oxyrhynchus: An Economic and Social Study
	1941 Barometer Rising
	1945 Two Solitudes
	1948 The Precipice
	1949 Cross-Country
	1951 Each Man's Son
	1955 Thirty and Three
	1959 The Watch that Ends the Night
	1960 Scotchman's Return and Other Essays
	1961 Seven Rivers in Canada (retitled Rivers of Canada)
	1967 Return of the Sphinx
	1967 The Colour of Canada
	1978 The Other Side of Hugh MacLennan: Selected Essays Old and New
	1980 Voices in Time
	1997 Dear Marian, Dear Hugh: The MacLennan-Engel Correspondence
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Awards

• Canada Reads
  • 2013 – Two Solitudes – Shortlisted

• Governor General's Literary Award – Fiction
  • 1945 – Two Solitudes – Winner
  • 1948 – The Precipice – Winner
  • 1959 – The Watch that Ends the Night – Winner

• Governor General's Literary Award – Nonfiction
  • 1949 – Cross-Country – Winner
  • 1954 – Thirty and Three – Winner

• Lorne Pierce Medal
  • 1952 Winner

• Order of Canada
  • 1967 – Companion

Comments

Added 14 January 2006.
Updated 07 July 2013.