Philip Child

Philip Albert Child (1898–1978) was a Canadian novelist, poet, and academic born in Hamilton, Ontario. He served in World War I, earned degrees from Trinity College, Cambridge, and Harvard, and taught at the University of British Columbia and Trinity College, becoming Chancellor's Professor of English. His notable works include The Village of Souls (1933), God's Sparrows (1937), Day of Wrath (1945), and Mr. Ames Against Time (1948), for which he won the Ryerson Fiction Award and the 1949 Governor General's Award.