Biography « Buried In Print

Nicolas Debon’s Four Pictures by Emily Carr (2003)

There are a number of ways in which one can get to know Emily Carr.

Groundwood Books – House of Anansi, 2003

First, for the bookish, via her own writing.

Klee Wick (1941), The Book of Small (1942), The House of All Sorts (1944), and, published posthumously, Growing Pains (1946), Pause (1953), The Heart of [...]

Nicola Beauman’s The Other Elizabeth Taylor (2009)

When actress Elizabeth Taylor was appearing in “National Velvet”, novelist Elizabeth Taylor (nee Coles) was publishing her first novel, At Mrs Lippincote’s.

It seems like everybody knows about Elizabeth Taylor the actress; Nicola Beauman’s biography considers The Other Elizabeth Taylor.

The biographer opens her work by explaining that she is aware that her subject “would [...]

Good guesses about Ethel Wilson

Mary McAlpine’s The Other Side of Silence: A Life of Ethel Wilson Harbour Publishing, 1988

I came across this bit in David Stouck’s biography before I even had a copy of Mary McAlpine’s book in my hands and it raised a string of questions that niggled and nagged until I finally started to read the [...]