Philip Albert Child was a Canadian

Canada

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 novelist, poet, and academic.

Born in Hamilton

Hamilton, Ontario

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, Ontario

Ontario

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, the son of William Addison Child and Elizabeth Helen (Harvey) Child, Child studied at Trinity College

University of Trinity College

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 where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree after serving during World War I

World War I

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. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Christ's College, Cambridge

Christ's College, Cambridge

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 in 1921 and received a Master of Arts and Ph.D. from Harvard University

Harvard University

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. He was a journalist and taught for a time at the University of British Columbia

University of British Columbia

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 while writing several novels. In 1942, he became a professor at Trinity College eventually becoming Chancellor's Professor of English.

Selected works

• The Village of Souls (1933)
• God's Sparrows (1937)
• Day of Wrath (1945)
• Mr. Ames against Time (1948) winner of the 1949 Governor General's Awards
  1949 Governor General's Awards
  In Canada, the 1949 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were the thirteenth such awards. The awards in this period had no monetary prize but were an honour for the authors. These were the first awards to give a prize for children's literature....
  
  
• The Victorian House: And Other Poems (1951)
• Come Rack (1954)
• The Wood of the Nightingale (1965)

External links

• Philip Albert Child at The Canadian Encyclopedia
  The Canadian Encyclopedia
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