Mordecai Richler

Linda Morra (Bishop's University)

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 27 Jan 1931
Died 3 Jul 2001
Activity 1951-2001

Places

Born in Canada
Active in Canada; England; France

Activities

Primary

Cultural Theorist/ Critic
Novelist
Satirist
Story-writer

Other

Autobiographer
Children's/Young Adult writer
Essayist
Film/TV Script-writer/ Screenwriter
Political writer

Resources

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Mordecai Richler was born in Montreal, Quebec, on January 27, 1931, to Moses Isaac Richler, a scrap-metal dealer, and Lily Leah Rosenberg, who published

The Errand Runner: Reflections of a Rabbi’s Daughter

. She and her own father, a rabbinical scholar who settled in Canada in 1904 after fleeing the pogroms of Eastern Europe, were of some influence in setting a literary precedent for Richler. Raised during the Depression in a working-class Jewish area, the St. Urbain Street neighbourhood of Montreal, Richler attended Baron Byng, a predominantly Jewish public high school. In 1948, he attended Sir George Williams College (later Concordia University) where he majored in English. During this period, he also worked as a reporter on a part-time basis for the

Montreal Herald

Eschewing academic

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Citation: Morra, Linda. "Mordecai Richler". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 24 March 2004 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=3773, accessed 25 November 2024.]

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