Arthur G. Storey

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Arthur G. Storey was a Canadian writer. [1] He is most noted for his novel Prairie Harvest, which won the Ryerson Fiction Award in 1959. [2]

Born in Haultain, Saskatchewan in 1915, at the time of his award win Storey was a professor in the faculty of education at the University of Alberta. [3] Prairie Harvest was reissued in 2002 alongside two previously unpublished sequel novels, The Years Between and Proving Ground.

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References

  1. "Publishers' Prize-Day". Canadian Literature , Vol. 3 (Winter 1960). pp. 79-80.
  2. "The Fly Leaf: Ryerson Prize Announced". The Globe and Mail , March 14, 1959.
  3. "Prairie Homestead Family". The Globe and Mail , October 10, 1959.