W. O. Mitchell
What can you say about W.O.? Arguably one of the most well known Canadian Authors.
W. O. Mitchell
What can you say about W.O.? Arguably one of the most well known Canadian Authors.
While researching this set, I was shocked to discover that he had only a handful of books to his credit. Yet he is as renown as the likes of Mordecai Richler, Margaret Attwood, Margaret Lawrence, and Robertson Davies.
I found the following on the internet.
"In 1947 Mitchell achieved instant recognition with the publication of his classic
Who Has Seen the Wind. The novel examines the initiation of the boy Brian into the
meaning of birth and death, life, freedom and justice. The children and the eccentrics,
the ever-drunken Ben and the madman Saint Sammy, are the most vivid characters.
Mitchell portrays the beauty and power of the prairie and the wind, symbolizing God.
Allan King directed the feature film based on the novel (1977) and an edition of the
book illustrated by William Kurelek was republished in 1991. Mitchell's second novel,
comic anecdotes with a more archetypal theme of the quest that ends in celebration
and immortality. "
-Author: CATHERINE MCLAY
(Used without permission)
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