Canadian Literature & Poetry
in English
Book & Publishing History
Key Porter Books
In Other Words: How I Fell in Love with Canada One Book at a Time
A memoir by Anna Porter, owner of Key Porter Books.
Z 483 .P67 A3
2018
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McClelland & Stewart
New Canadian Library: The Ross-McClelland Years, 1952–1978
Analyzes the historical context of the New Canadian Library
series, edited by Malcolm Ross and published by McClelland and Stewart, beginning in 1958.
Also examines the simultaneous development of Canadian literary
studies as a legitimate area of research and teaching in academe and acknowledges the NCL as a
milestone in Canadian publishing history.
The Handover: How Bigwigs and Bureaucrats Transferred Canada’s
Best Publisher and the Best Part of Our Literary Heritage to a Foreign Multinational
Investigates how Canada’s premiere national publisher,
McClelland and Stewart, was eventually sold to Random House, a division of Bertelsmann, a German
media giant.
Z 483 .M33 D48
2017
Stacks
Jack, A Life with Writers: the Story of Jack McClelland
Z 483 .M3 K56
1999
Stacks
Imagining Canadian Literature: The Selected Letters of Jack
McClelland
Sorted chronologically, the letters between the preeminent
publisher and leading Canadian authors of the fifties, sixties and seventies offer an inside
view of the personalities that contributed to Canada’s position in the international
publishing market.
Includes correspondence from Margaret Atwood, Pierre Berton,
Earle Birney, Leonard Cohen, Margaret Laurence, Irving Layton, Farley Mowat, Peter C. Newman,
Mordecai Richler, Gabrielle Roy, Michael Ondaatje, and Al Purdy.
Z 483 .M3 A4
1998
Stacks
Margaret Laurence and Jack McClelland, Letters
In this collection of annotated letters, readers gain rare
insight into the private side of these literary icons. Their correspondence reveals a
professional relationship that evolved into deep friendship over a period of enormous cultural
change. Both were committed to the idea of Canadian writing.
“‘I am Being Taught My Own Work’: Editor Claire
Pratt of McClelland and Stewart”
Analyzes the career of Claire Pratt (1921–1995), who
served as the senior editor at McClelland and Stewart between 1956 and 1965 within the context
of book history and history of publishing in Canada. Developing and expanding the New Canadian
Library (NCL) series was one of Pratt’s major editorial achievements.
NCL continues to be recognized as a “prestige imprint on
paperback editions of Canadian works.” Pratt also worked closely with Malcolm Ross, Peter
C. Newman, Margaret Laurence, Irving Layton and other promient authors. The article is an
important contribution to the study of women in the publishing sector.
reviewed & updated 19 May 2021 | compiled by Agatha Barc, MI