Sinclair Ross

Sinclair Ross was born and raised in a rural part of Canada’s Saskatchewan province. His parents divorced when he was young, and he lived with his mother on a series of farms until he left school at the age of sixteen and took a job at a bank. Ross continued to work for the same bank for over 30 years, moving to the larger city of Winnipeg and eventually cosmopolitan Montreal. He also spent four years stationed in London during World War II. His most famous work is the novel As For Me and My House, originally published in 1941. Although that piece did not initially receive much public attention, Ross had won several awards for his earlier short stories and by the mid-1950s was widely recognized as a significant writer of Canadian fiction. His writing is known for its nuanced, powerful portrayals of the reality of life in small Canadian towns. Ross suffered from Parkinson’s disease and died in Vancouver, Canada at the age of 88.