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Philip Child


Born
in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
January 19, 1898

Died
February 06, 1978


Philip Albert Child was a Canadian novelist, poet and academic.

Child studied at Trinity College where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree after serving during World War I. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Christ's College, Cambridge in 1921 and received a Master of Arts and Ph.D. from Harvard University.

He was a journalist and taught for a time at the University of British Columbia while writing several novels. In 1942, he became a professor at Trinity College eventually becoming Chancellor's Professor of English.

He won the 1949 Governor General's Award for fiction for his novel Mr. Ames Against Time
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