Mavis Gallant

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Standard Name: Gallant, Mavis
Birth Name: Mavis de Trafford Young
Canadian-born Mavis Gallant lived most of her life in Paris, where she wrote hundreds of short stories, two novels, essays, diaries, and a play during the mid to late twentieth century. Her work, which often deals with exile and transience, is known mostly through her lengthy publishing relationship with The New Yorker.
Colour portrait photo of Mavis Gallant in Paris, July 1984. She is smiling and looking directly at the camera. She wears a navy blazer with a brown stone brooch at the side and a small microphone at her collar.

Connections

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Education Margaret Atwood
From 1957 she attended Victoria College , University of Toronto . Canadian publishing and the arts in Canada, broadly considered, had not yet recovered from the second world war. There were no cheap reprints of...

Timeline

21 February 1924: The first issue appeared of the New Yorker...

Writing climate item

21 February 1924

The first issue appeared of the New Yorker magazine (still going strong in the twenty-first century).
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
21 February 2011
Kindley, Evan. “Ismism”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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Texts

Gallant, Mavis. “‘The Life of the Writer’”. Margaret Laurence Lecture, Writers’ Trust of Canada, 1988.
Richler, Mordecai, and Mavis Gallant. “Afterword”. The Moslem Wife and Other Stories, McClelland & Stewart, 1994, pp. 247-52.
Gallant, Mavis, and Mavis Gallant. “An Introduction”. Home Truths, Macmillan of Canada, 1981, p. xi - xxii.
Gallant, Mavis. Home Truths. Macmillan of Canada, 1981.
Gallant, Mavis. “In Youth Is Pleasure”. The New Yorker, pp. 46-54.
Weaver, Robert, and Mavis Gallant. “Introduction”. The End of the World and Other Stories, McClelland and Stewart, 1974, pp. 7-13.
Gallant, Mavis. “Madeline’s Birthday”. The New Yorker, Condé Nast, pp. 20-24.
Gallant, Mavis. “Orphan’s Progress”. The New Yorker, Condé Nast, pp. 49-51.
Gallant, Mavis. Paris Notebooks: Essays & Reviews. Macmillan, 1986.
Gallant, Mavis, and Mavis Gallant. “Preface”. The Selected Stories of Mavis Gallant, McClelland & Stewart, 1996, p. ix - xix.
Gallant, Mavis. “The Hunger Diaries”. The New Yorker.
Gallant, Mavis. The Pegnitz Junction. Random House, 1973.