Ross, Sinclair

Ross, Sinclair
▪ 1997

      Canadian writer of works that were exquisitely crafted and portrayed the bleakness found on the Canadian prairie; his most acclaimed book, As for Me and My House, poignantly described a desolate Depression-era existence in Horizon, Sask. (b. Jan. 22, 1908—d. Feb. 29, 1996).

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