The Precipice

Hugh MacLennan (1907-1990) was a pioneering Canadian novelist and essayist whose works explored national identity, including the Halifax Explosion in Barometer Rising (1941) and English-French tensions in his most famous novel Two Solitudes (1945). He won five Governor General's Awards for works like The Precipice (1948), essay collections Cross Country (1949) and Thirty and Three (1954), and The Watch That Ends the Night (1959), along with the Companion of the Order of Canada.