Edward McCourt was born in 1907 in Mullinger, Ireland and came to Canada with his family in 1909. He grew up near Kitscoty, Alberta and studied English literature at the University of Alberta. In 1937, he earned an M.A. from Oxford which he attended as a Rhodes scholar. McCourt taught at the University of New Brunswick, Queen's University, and the University of Saskatoon. He died in 1972 in Saskatoon.

Books by Edward McCourt

	1947 Music at the Close (novel)
	1947 The Flaming Hour (young adult)
	1949 The Canadian West in Fiction (non-fiction)
	1950 Home is the Stranger (novel)
	1955 Buckskin Brigadier (young adult)
	1956 The Wooden Sword (novel)
	1958 Walk Through the Valley (novel)
	1958 Revolt in the West (young adult)
	1963 Fasting Friar (novel) also published as The Ettinger Affair
	1965 The Road Across Canada (travel)
	1967 Remember Butler (biography)
	1968 Saskatchewan (travel)
	1969 The Yukon and the Northwest (travel)
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Added 27 September 2008.
Updated 07 January 2012.