List of Canadian writers

An alphabetical list of classic figures in the Canadian literary landscape includes the following:

Milton Acorn (1923 - 1986) poet, has published 18 volumes of poetry
Linda Aksomitis (nee Demyen) (1951?- ) novels, travel, poetry under pseudonym Sunflower Sue, manual for use of serger.
Charlotte Vale Allen (a.k.a. Katherine Marlowe) (1941- ) romantic novels
Margaret Atwood, (1939- ) The Handmaid's Tale (1985), Alias Grace, Surfacing
Margaret Avison (1918 - ) poet, has published 8 volumes of poetry
Pierre Berton, (1920- )
Sandra Birdsell has published 3 works of short fiction and 3 novels, wrote The Two-Headed Calf
Earle Birney (1904-1995) poet primarily, also novels, short stories, drama
Bill Bissett (1939- ) poet, famous for incorporating sound and the visual into poetry
Morley Callaghan (1903-1990) novelist and writer of short fiction, wrote A Fine and Private Place
Roch Carrier
Bliss Carman
Leonard Cohen
Douglas Coupland
Octave Crémazie
Robertson Davies, (1913-1995) wrote Fifth Business (1970), publisher, professor, journalist
Mazo de la Roche, Jalna saga
William Henry Drummond, (1854-1907), poet, The habitant
C. J. Everon
Timothy Findley, (1930-2002)
Sheree Fitch
Louis Fréchette, (1839-1908), poet, essayist, journalist, dramatist
Northrop Frye
Mavis Gallant, (1922- )
Saint-Denys Garneau
Frederick Phillip Grove
Arthur Hailey, (1920- )indefatigable researcher, author of Hotel (1965), Airport (1968)
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Louis Hémon - (1880-1913), novelist and journalist, Maria Chapdelaine
Nancy Huston, (1953- )
Robert N.Kucey, (1940- )
Margaret Laurence (1926 - 1987) novelist, wrote "The Stone Angel"
Irving Layton
Stephen Leacock
Dorothy Livesay
Malcolm Lowry, (1909-1957) author of Under the Volcano (1947)
Hugh MacLennan (1907 - 1990) novelist and essayist, wrote Barometer Rising
Alistair MacLeod, (1936- )
Antonine Maillet
Eli Mandel
John McCrae ("In Flanders' Fields")
Marshall McLuhan
Rohinton Mistry, (1952- )
W.O. Mitchell
Lucy Maude Montgomery, (1874-1942)
Farely Mowat
Susanna Moodie (nee Strickland), (1803-1885), Roughing it in the Bush
Alice Munro, (1931- )
Émile Nelligan
B.P Nicol
Alden Nowlan
Michael Ondaatje, (1943- ) wrote The English Patient (1993)
E.J. Pratt
Jean Baptiste Proulx, (1846-1904), dramatist and essayist
Al Purdy
Nino Ricci
David Adams Richards, (1950- )
Mordecai Richler, (1931-2001) The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959)
Sir Charles G.D. Roberts
Sinclair Ross
Gabrielle Roy, (1909-1983)
Carol Shields, (1935- )
Samuel Strickland, (1804-1867) Twenty-seven Years in Canada West
Catherine Parr Traill (nee Strickland), (1802-1899) The backwoods of Canada
Michel Tremblay
Elise Turcotte
Jane Urquhart, (1949- )
Rudy Weibe
George Woodcock, (1912-1995), poet, critic and anarchist author of Anarchism

Those not mentioned above include: