Gwethalyn Graham

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Gwethalyn Graham


Born
in Toronto, Canada
January 18, 1913

Died
November 25, 1965


Gwethalyn Graham was a Canadian writer, whose 1944 novel Earth And High Heaven was the first Canadian book to reach number one on the New York Times Best Seller list. Gwethalyn won the Governor General's Award twice, for her first novel Swiss Sonata in 1938 and for Earth And High Heaven in 1944.

She was born Gwethalyn Graham Erichsen-Brown, to wealthy Toronto parents. Her father was a lawyer. At 19, she was a student at Smith College in Massachusetts, but dropped out and eloped with John McNaught, the son of her father's business partner. They divorced and Gwethalyn moved to the city of Westmount, on the Island of Montreal where she became a close friend and associate of Hugh MacLennan, F. R. Scott, Thérèse Casgrain and Pierre Trudeau. Gweth
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Earth and High Heaven (Corm...

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Swiss Sonata

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“If you choose to turn your back, you don't really have a say in what goes on behind it.”
Gwethalyn Graham, Earth and High Heaven

“What he was saying was of no importance in itself, it had all been said before so many times, repeated parrot-like but with an air of acute perception and originality by one person after another, in one country after another, all the way down through history. After all, even Hitler was unable to think up anything really new on the subject of the Jews; he merely said what everybody else had been saying, only of course he said it louder and oftener, and put it a bit more strongly.”
Gwethalyn Graham, Earth and High Heaven

“I don't realize what something really means until it suddenly walks up and hits me between the eyes. It isn't enough to think, you have to feel [...]”
Gwethalyn Graham, Earth and High Heaven

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