Hugh MacLennan

Hugh MacLennan
Fellow: Awarded 1943
Field of Study: Fiction
Competition: US & Canada
Lower Canada College
As published in the Foundation’s Report for 1943–44:
Appointed from Canada:
MacLennan, HUGH. Appointed for creative writing in the field of the novel; tenure, twelve months from June 1, 1943.
Born March 20, 1907, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Education: Dalhousie University, B.A., 1929; University of Oxford, B.A., 1932 (Rhodes Scholar, Oriel college); Princeton University, M.A., 1934, Ph.D., 1935.
Head of Classics Department, 1935—, Lower Canada College, Montreal.
Publications: Oxyrhynchus: An Economic and Social Study, 1935; Barometer Rising, 1941. Articles in Dalhousie Review, Christian Science Monitor, Montreal Standard. Author of “Twelve Million Neighbors,” radio scripts for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 1942.