Ethel Wilson (née Bryant) was born on 20 January 1888 in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Her mother died the following year and her father took her to England. When he died in 1898, she was sent to Vancouver to live with relatives. She graduated from the Vancouver Normal School in 1907 and taught in elementary schools until her marriage to a local doctor in 1921. Wilson died on 22 December 1980 in Vancouver.

In 1985, the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize was created to honour authors from British Columbia and the Yukon.

Books by Ethel Wilson

	1947 Hetty Dorval (novel)	Amazon.ca Biblio.com
	1949 The Innocent Traveller (novel)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1952 The Equations of Love: Tuesday and Wednesday, Lilly's Story (novellas)	Amazon.ca Biblio.com
	1954 Swamp Angel (novel)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1956 Love and Salt Water (novel)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1961 Mrs. Golightly and Other Stories (short stories)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1987 Ethel Wilson: Stories, Essays, and Letters (edited by David Stouck)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
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Awards

• Lorne Pierce Medal
  • 1964 Winner

• Order of Canada
  • 1970 – Officer

Books about Ethel Wilson

	Ethel Wilson by Desmond Pacey	Biblio.com
	The Other Side of Silence: A Life of Ethel Wilson by Mary McAlpine	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	Ethel Wilson: A Critical Biography by David Stouck	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com

Added 23 May 2006.
Updated 17 March 2009.