Frederick Philip Grove

Colin Hill (University of Toronto)

Ed. by Wendy Roy, University of Saskatchewan
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.1.2: Canadian Writing and Culture (Anglophone): The Twentieth Century and beyond, 1900-present.
Vol. editors: Sarah Henzi (Simon Fraser University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Glen Nichols (Mount Allison University), Wendy Roy (University of Saskatchewan), Denis Salter (McGill University), Karis Shearer (University of British Columbia)

Dates

Born 14 Feb 1879
Died 19 Aug 1948
Activity 1899-1948

Places

Born in Germany
Active in Canada

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Novelist

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Grove's Works

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Frederick Philip Grove was, under his German name, Felix Paul Greve, a minor turn-of-the-century German poet, novelist, translator, and playwright. Later, under the name by which he is more commonly known, he became one of the most prolific and significant Canadian writers of the early twentieth century. He wrote some of Canada's best-known novels of the period, and was a founder of the realist tradition in modern Canadian fiction. More than half a century after his death, Grove remains an enigmatic and controversial figure. Much of the considerable critical interest he has generated centres on his problematic identity, which he deliberately falsified and obscured. His novels, which are at once eclectic, ambitious, experimental, and resistant to categorization, reflect a confused…

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Citation: Hill, Colin. "Frederick Philip Grove". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 23 July 2004 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1901, accessed 24 November 2024.]