Walter Bauer (writer)

Walter Bauer (writer)

Walter Bauer (born November 4, 1904, in Meresburg, Germany, died December 23, 1976, in Toronto, Canada) was a biographer, novelist and poet.

Walter Bauer showed himself a promising poet in pre-Hitler Germany, but with the rise of the Nazis he found his poetry being banned. He became an elementary school teacher and after the war had high hopes for a literary life. However, in 1953, feeling the cynicism of the German Economic Miracle, he emigrated to Canada where, after a stint as a dishwasher, he became a professor in the German Department of the University of Toronto in 1954.

He wrote six novels, two collections of poetry and four biographies (including one on Van Gogh and another on Grey Owl). He also wrote plays and essays.

Further reading

* Arend, Angelika (1999). "Documents of Protest and Compassion: The Poetry of Walter Bauer". McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN 0773518797.


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