Elizabeth W. Brewster

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Elizabeth Winifred Brewster, CM, SOM, a Canadian poet, author, and academic, was born in Chipman, New Brunswick, the youngest of five children in a family of limited means. Despite ill health and a sporadic early education, she was a keen reader and her first poem, submitted by her father and accepted by the <i>Saint John Telegraph-Journal</i>, was published when she was just twelve years old. In 1942, Brewster entered the University of New Brunswick on a small scholarship, where she helped found the longstanding Canadian literary journal <i>The Fiddlehead</i>. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1946, a M.A. from Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1947, and began her Ph.D. at Indiana University before electing to travel to England on a Beaverbrook overseas scholarship to study at King's College, London from 1949-50. Later she received a Bachelor of Library Science from the University of Toronto, and returned in 1957 to Indiana University Bloomington to complete her Ph.D. (1962). She was a professor at the University of Saskatchewan, where she taught literature and creative writing from 1972 until she retired in 1990. One of only a few modernist women poets of the 1940s and 50s, Brewster published over the course of her long career twenty-two collections of poetry, beginning with <i>East Coast</i> (Ryerson Press, 1951), as well as five books of fiction and two memoirs. She also received many honours, including the E.J. Pratt Award, a Saskatchewan Lifetime Ac

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