Elizabeth Brewster’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro Canadian poet
Was Writer 
Poet 
Novelist 
Short story writer 
From Canada 
Type Literature 
Gender female
Birth 26 August 1922, Chipman, New Brunswick, New Brunswick, Canada
Death 26 December 2012, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
(aged 90 years)

Elizabeth Winifred Brewster, CM (26 August 1922 – 26 December 2012) was a Canadian poet and academic.

Born in Chipman, New Brunswick, she received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of New Brunswick, a Master of Arts degree from Radcliffe College, a Bachelor of Library Science from the University of Toronto, and a Ph.D. from Indiana University. She was a Professor at the University of Saskatchewan.

In 2001, she was made a Member of the Order of Canada, Canada’s highest civilian honor.

Selected bibliography

Poetry

  • East Coast 1951
  • Lillooet 1954
  • Roads 1957
  • Death by Drowning 1969
  • Passage of Summer 1969
  • Sunrise North 1972
  • In Search of Eros 1974
  • Sometimes I Think of Moving 1977
  • The Way Home 1982
  • Digging In 1982
  • Selected Poems, 1944-1984 (2 volumes) 1985
  • Entertaining Angels 1988
  • Spring Again 1990
  • Wheel of Change 1993
  • Footnotes to the Book of Job 1995, shortlisted for the 1996 Governor General’s Award
  • Garden of Sculpture 1998
  • On the Value Of Fantasies
  • Where I Come From 2000
  • Blueflag

Other works

  • The Sisters 1974
  • It’s Easy to Fall on the Ice 1977
  • Junction 1982
  • A House Full of Women 1983
  • Visitations 1987
  • The Invention of Truth 1991
  • Away from Home 1995
  • In The Morning (27 May) year unknown. Published in Viewpoints Grade 11 English Textbook
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