Raddall, Thomas Head

Raddall, Thomas Head

▪ Canadian author
born November 13, 1903, Hythe, Kent, England
died April 1, 1994, Liverpool, Nova Scotia, Canada

      English-Canadian novelist, who accurately depicted the history, manners, and idiom of Nova Scotians.

      Raddall immigrated to Nova Scotia with his family in 1913 after his father, a military officer, was transferred to Halifax. The younger Raddall was briefly employed as a wireless operator before becoming a bookkeeper in a paper mill in 1922; his various jobs later provided material for his stories. He began writing as a hobby and by 1938 was writing full time. John Buchan (Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir), the British author and then governor-general of Canada, wrote a laudatory introduction to his first volume of short stories, The Pied Piper of Dipper Creek (1939). His first novel, His Majesty's Yankees (1942), set in Nova Scotia during the American Revolution, was followed by other carefully researched historical romances. He also published The Nymph and the Lamp (1950), a story of contemporary life at a Canadian wireless station; a historical work, Halifax, Warden of the North (1948); and the short-story collections At the Tide's Turn (1959) and The Dreamers (1986). Other novels include Pride's Fancy (1946) and Hangman's Beach (1966). His autobiography In My Time appeared in 1976.

      Raddall's numerous honours include the Governor General's Award for fiction (1943) and nonfiction (1948, 1957). In 1971 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.

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