Ernest Buckler

Ernest Buckler (19 July 1908 – 4 March 1984) was a Canadian novelist and short story writer best known for his 1952 novel, "The Mountain and the Valley".

Buckler was born in the village of West Dalhousie, Nova Scotia, where he attended a one-room schoolhouse. He was a scholarship student at Dalhousie University (B.A., 1929), and a philosophy student at the University of Toronto (M.A., 1930). After graduation, he stayed in Toronto, working as an actuary, until 1936, when he returned to rural Nova Scotia, eventually settling on a farm in Centrelea near Bridgetown.

In 1967, he was awarded the Canadian Centennial Medal and in 1974, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.

A celebration of his birthday (he would have been 100) will be held in Centrelea, Nova Scotia July 19, 2008.

Bibliography

Novels

* "The Mountain and the Valley." New York: Henry Holt, 1952.
* "The Cruelest Month." Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1963.

Other works

* "Ox Bells and Fireflies: A Memoir." Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1968; New York: Knopf, 1968.
* "Nova Scotia: Window on the Sea." Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1973.
* "The Rebellion of Young David and Other Stories." Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1975.
* "Whirligig." Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977.

References

* Lecker, Robert and Jack David. "The Annotated Bibliography of Canada's Major Authors, volume III."

External links

* [http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0001078 Ernest Buckler] at "The Canadian Encyclopedia"
* [http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5225 Ernest Buckler] at "The Literary Encyclopedia"