“But what I knew then was that nobody-not even my mother-was to be trusted in a strange world that showed very little of itself in the surface.”

Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor

William Robertson Davies was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. He became one of Canada's best known and most popular writers, and was widely regarded as a distinguished man of letters. Davies worked across several literary forms, including fiction, drama, criticism, and journalism. He also founded and served as the first Master of Massey College, the graduate residential college associated with the University of Toronto.