This comprehensive collection includes biographies of Margaret Atwood, Clark Blaise, Frances Brooke, Ernest Buckler, Morley Callaghan, Leonard Cohen, Matt Cohen, Ralph Connor, Robertson Davies, Sara Jeannette Duncan, Marian Engel, Mavis Gallant, Hugh Garner, Dave Godfrey, Frederick Philip Grove, Thomas Haliburton, Robert Harlow, Jack Hodgins, Hugh Hood, William Kirby, Raymond Knister, Robert Kroetsch, Margaret Laurence, Stephen Leacock, Norman Levine, Hugh MacLennan, John Metcalf, W. O. Mitchell, Susanna Moodie, Alice Munro, Martha Ostenso, Gilbert Parker, Thomas Raddall, John Richardson, Mordecai Richler, Charles G. D. Roberts, Leon Rooke, Sinclair Ross, Ernest Thompson Seton, Robert Stead, Audrey Thomas, Catharine Parr Traill, Sheila Watson, Rudy Wiebe, Ethel Wilson, Adele Wiseman, and other writers of the 19th century.