Robert Weaver: Godfather of Canadian Literature [

By Elaine Kalman Naves format: trade paperback publication: September 2007 ISBN: 9781550652338

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Over the course of half a century, as radio producer, editor, talent scout, impresario, and anthologist, Robert Weaver nurtured and sustained three generations of writers. Among those he gave their earliest breaks to were Alice Laidlaw (who became Alice Munro), Mordecai Richler, Timothy Findley, and Leonard Cohen.

This fall, Elaine Kalman Naves shines the spotlight on Weaver in a two-hour CBC Ideas documentary about the life of this famously modest and reserved man. This companion book is an unbuttoned and colourful biography and an extended riff on the development of modern Canadian literature. The book includes archival photographs and interviews with Weaver himself and with Alice Munro, Margaret Atwood, Alistair MacLeod, Barry Callaghan, Robert Fulford, and Janice Kulyk Keefer.

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