Robert Weaver

AM published another short-story collection, The Moons of Jupiter (twelve stories), dedicated to Robert Weaver .

For years Robert Weaver , CBC producer, was AM 's only friend in the literary world. In the late 1970s she bonded with Margaret Laurence (with whom, a few years earlier, she had differed when...

Through parties hosted by her eventual publisher, the Macmillan Company , EW also met Morley Callaghan , who admired her writing. Other writers she knew included John Gray , A. J. M. Smith , Robert Weaver

The book's reception was very positive. Without a single main plot to analyze, reviewers once again primarily discussed EW 's distinctive style, and her precision with language was often noted. In the Vancouver Sun...

Alice Laidlaw (later AM ), barely out of her teens, first reached a wide audience when her story The Strangers was broadcast by the CBC through the producer Robert Weaver .

She could not, she wrote, overemphasize the importance to her as a student and later as a housewife and mother, to have some of those stories accepted and broadcast on CBC radio , as well...

On 23 January 1953 a dramatization of Lilly's Story was broadcast on CBC through Robert Weaver , the producer of the program Canadian Short Stories. The broadcast generated controversy. Newspapers in Montreal reported that...

The story also illuminates EW 's method of writing. She explained to Robert Weaver that she based it on actual events that happened in Stanley Park, Vancouver, to a friend of hers twelve years...

Five years later, in 1987, MA selected, with Robert Weaver , the contents of The New Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English. She has edited other collections, such as Barbed Lyres: Canadian...