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Born Felix Paul Greve in 1879 in Radomno and raised in Hamburg, Grove graduated from the famous Gymnasium Johanneum in 1898. He studied classical philology and archaeology in Bonn and Munich where he frequented circles surrounding Stefan George, the leading German poet of his time. In Berlin Greve became involved with Else Endell who was the wife of his friend, the Jugendstil architect August Endell. All three set out for Palermo in January, 1903. After Greve had served a prison term in Bonn in 1903/04 for defrauding another friend, "the Greves" lived in Switzerland, France, and Berlin until the now highly prolific translator abruptly left for America in late July 1909: apart from being heavily in debt, he had just double-sold his translation of Swift's Prose Works, and found it advisable to disappear by staging his suicide. Else joined him in Pittsburgh a year later. Within a year of their reunion, Greve abandoned her on a small farm near Sparta, Kentucky, in 1911, and made his way towards Canada. Else posed in Cincinnati, Philadelphia and New York where she married Baron Leo von Freytag-Loringhoven in late 1913. Under his name, she later became well-known in New York Dada circles which included artists like Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp.

After a decade of teaching in remote districts of Manitoba, Grove started to emerge as a Canadian writer from Rapid City in 1922. Often ignored, his first publication had been the Nietzschean essay "Rousseau als Erzieher"in the German-Canadian newspaper Der Nordwesten in November & December of 1914. Grove began taking extra-mural studies at the University of Manitoba in 1915, and he obtained his B.A. in French and German in 1922. In 1914, he had married his fellow teacher Catherine Wiens. After their daughter Phyllis May died during an appendicitis operation shortly before her twelfth birthday in 1927, the Groves left Manitoba to settle in Ontario in 1929. Their son Leonard was born in Ottawa in 1930, while Grove was briefly involved with Graphic Publishers who had published his first autobiographical novel, A Search for America, in 1927. Despite the economically depressed conditions and increasing ill health, Grove continued to write and publish from his Simcoe estate until his death on August 19, 1948.

The highlight of Grove's career as a Canadian author had been a highly successful, coast-to-coast lecture tour organized be the Canadian Club in 1928 & 1929. Among many further honours he received were the Lorne Pierce Medal in 1934, the election as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1941, two Honorary Doctorates from his alma mater, the University of Manitoba (D.Litt.) and Mount Allison University (LLD) in 1946, and the Governor-General's Award in 1947 -- ironically, he was awarded the latter in the category of non-fiction for his second autobiography In Search of Myself (1946). Since 1943, Grove also received frequent monetary support from the Canadian Authors' Foundation. In April 1943, he ran -- without success -- for the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation in the Ontario provincial elections.

Alan Crawley, best known as the editor of Contemporary Verse, was born in Coburg, Ontario in 1887. After attending St. John's College in Winnipeg, Crawley became a Barrister & Solicitor in 1912. As a lawyer in Winnipeg he developed an interest in poetry and after the war attended writers' gatherings, reciting and discussing poetry. After a serious illness in 1933, he lost his sight and moved to Victoria, with his wife, Jean, the following year. The first edition of Contemporary Verse, a literary magazine for Canadian writers, appeared in 1941 and continued, with Crawley at the helm until 1952. For thirty-nine issues the magazine, one of the few literary periodicals in Canada at the time, served as a showcase for the best Canadian poets. Crawley died in 1975 on Vancouver Island.

Richard (Red) Lane (1936-1964) was a young and promising West Coast poet who died before he could come into his own as a writer. One volume of work was issued during his lifetime, and his brother oversaw the publication of a second volume posthumously.

Born in 1909 in Winnipeg, Dorothy Livesay came with her family to Ontario as a child. She received her B.A. from Trinity College, University of Toronto 1931, and from the Sorbonne in 1932, her "diplome d'etudes superieures". In 1934 she studied at the School of Social Work at the University of Toronto and did welfare work in Montreal, New Jersey and Vancouver. In 1956 she received her M.Ed. from the University of British Columbia. For 1965-66 she was Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia and from 1966 to 1968 was Writer-in-Residence at the University of New Brunswick. Dorothy Livesay's poetry has won her recognition throughout her career. In 1944 she won the Governor-General's Medal for poetry with Day and Night, and again in 1947 with Poems for People. She was also the recipient of the Lorne Pierce Gold Medal from the Royal Society of Canada for distinguished service to Canadian Literature in 1947.

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Lorne Albert Pierce was born on August 3, 1890 in Delta, Ontario. Both his parents were third generation Canadians of Irish descent. He was educated at Athens High .School, Queen's University (B.A.1913), Victoria College (Toronto), United Theological College (McGill), Union Theological Seminary (New York) and New York University.
While attending Queen's he taught school in Western Canada in the summers , and after graduation he went West as a probationary minister. He was orgained in 1916 and became Associa,te Minister of St. James Methodist Church, Ottawa. In 1917 he enlisted as a private in the Queen's Field Ambulance Service, and as an NCO did personnel and administrativE work at Ongwanada Military Hospital, Kingston. After the war he completed his doctorate 1n theology at United College, McGill University.
From 1920 to 1960 Dr. Pierce was editor of Ryerson Press where he made many innovations. A large number of Ryerson publications were textbooks. These he made attractive with the help of Canadian artists and illustrators. As a result the texts were adopted by departments of education across the country. Ryerson also published the works of a great number of Canadian writers, biographical and critical studies of Canadian writers, and a number "of notable books in Canadian historical studies. Dr. Pierce himself contributed to Canadian writing. His two most important books are "Marjorie Pickthall: a Book of Remembrance" (1925) and "William Kirby: the Portrait of a Tory Loyalist" (1929). His ideas on Canada and Canadian nationalism are found in "Toward The Bonne Entente" (1929), "New History for Old" (1931), "Armoury in Our Halls" (1941), "A Canadian People" (1945), and "A Canadian Nation" (1960).
Besides his work as an editor and writer, Lorne Pierce devoted himself to a number of community and national associations. Among them were the Canadian Authors' Association, the Canadian Writers' Foundation the Bibliographical Society of Canada, the Art Gallery of Toronto, the Queen's Art Foundation, the National Association of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, the Arts and Letters Club, the Champlain Society, the Alliance Canadienne, and the Metropolitan Arts Council. He donated the Lorne Pierce Medal annually awarded by the Royal Society of Canada for literary achievement by a Canadian Author. Dr. Pierce always maintained a lifelong interest in Queents University, contributing literary material to the Douglas Library throughout his long career.
In 1916, Lorne Pierce married Edith Chown, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Chown of Kingston. The Plerce's had two children, Elizabeth (Mrs. Jack Robinson) and Lorne Bruce.
Dr. Pierce died November 2, 1961.

Edith Chown was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Chown of Kingston. She married Lorne Pierce in 1916. The Pierce's had two children, Elizabeth (Mrs. Jack Robinson) and Lorne Bruce.

Alfred Earle Birney, poet (b at Calgary 13 May 1904; d at Toronto, Ont 3 Sept 1995). Beginning with David and Other Poems (1942), Birney's poetry consistently explored the resources of language with passionate and playful curiosity.
Birney also had an important career as a teacher of creative writing and literature, and as a playwright, novelist and editor. He taught at several universities, most notably at UBC (1946-65), where he founded and directed the first Canadian creative writing programme. His work led to the establishment at UBC of Canada's first Department of Creative Writing in 1965. In this same year, Birney was appointed as the first writer-in-residence at the University of Toronto. But his greatest contribution has been to 20th century Canadian poetry.
Birney won the Governor General's Award for poetry twice (for David, 1942, and for Now Is Time, 1945). His darkly comic WWII novel Turvey won the Stephen Leacock Medal in 1949. He received the Lorne Pierce Medal for Literature in 1953. Later works includeCopernican Fix (1985), Words on Waves: Selected Radio Plays (1985) and Essays on Chaucerian Irony (1985). His memoir is titled Spreading Time: Remarks on Canadian Writing and Writers 1904-1949 (1989). His final collection, Last Markings (1991), was published after a disabling heart attack in 1987.

GEORGE FREDERICK CAMERON was born at New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, September 24th, 1854,–the eldest son of James Grant Cameron and Jessie Sutherland. He was educated at the local High School, where he read Virgil and Cicero in the original and devoted much time to poetry, and at the Boston University of Law. His family had moved to Boston in 1869. After graduation he entered a law office, but gave considerable attention to literary work, contributing to a number of journals. In 1882, he entered Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, and the following year had the distinction to win the prize for the best original poem.

In March, 1883, Mr. Cameron became editor of the Kingston News, and in the following August, married Ella, the eldest daughter of Mr. Billings Amey, of Millhaven. He continued in his editorial position until a few weeks before his untimely death from heart failure, September 17th, 1885. For two years he had suffered much from insomnia. His young wife and their daughter survived him.

Annie Charlotte Dalton (nee Armitage) was born in 1865 in Yorkshire, England and displayed an early interest in painting and poetry. A childhood illness rendered her totally deaf. In 1891 she married Willie Dalton and in 1904 moved to Vancouver, British Columbia. Mrs . Dalton's works included numerous contributions to periodicals, nine published books, at least five privately printed pamphlets, and a large volume of unpublished works including a book-length collection of essays.