Hugh Hood

Hugh John Blagdon Hood, OC (b in Toronto, Ontario 30 Apr 1928 – d in Montreal, Quebec 1 Aug 2000) was a Canadian novelist, short story writer, essayist and university professor. Hood wrote 32 books: 17 novels including the 12-volume New Age novel sequence (influenced by Marcel Proust and Anthony Powell), several volumes of short fiction, and 5 of nonfiction. He taught English literature at the Université de Montréal. In the early 1970s he and fellow authors Clark Blaise, Raymond Fraser, John Metcalf and Ray Smith formed the well-known Montreal Story Tellers Fiction Performance Group, which popularized the public reading of fiction in Canada. In 1988, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. 2Bibliography 3Novels White Figure, White Ground (1964) The Camera Always Lies (1967) A Game of Touch (1970) You Can't Get There From Here (1972) Five New Facts about Giorgione (1987) 3The New Age Series The Swing in the Garden (1975) A New Athens (1977) Reservoir Ravine (1979) Black and White Keys (1982) The Scenic Art (1984) The Motor Boys in Ottawa (1986) Tony's Book (1988) Property & Value (1990) Be Sure to Close Your Eyes (1993) Dead Men's Watches (1995) Great Realizations (1997) Near Water (2000) 3Short stories Flying a Red Kite (1962) Around the Mountain: Scenes from Montreal Life (1967) The Fruit Man, The Meat Man & The Manager (1971) Dark Glasses (1976) Selected Stories (1978) None Genuine Without This Signature (1980) August Nights (1985) A Short Walk in the Rain (1989) The Isolation Booth (1991) You'll Catch Your Death (1992) 3Non-Fiction Strength Down the Centre: The Jean Beliveau Story (1970) The Governor's Bridge is Closed (1973) Scoring: The Art of Hockey [Illus. Seymour Segal] (1979) 2References Lecker, Robert; David, Jack: The Annotated Bibliography of Canada's Major Authors: Volume Five (by J.R. (Tim) Struthers), pp 231. 2External links The Isolation Booth Special Collections HUGH HOOD Hugh Hood entry at The Canadian Encyclopedia Hugh Hood entry at Knowledgerush 2Additional reading Keith, W.J. Canadian Odyssey A Reading of Hugh Hood's The New Age / Le nouveau siècle (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002). 2Bibliographies "A Bibliography of Works by and on Hugh Hood," in Before the Flood: Our Examination round His Factification for Incamination of Hugh Hood's Work in Progress, edited by J.R. (Tim) Struthers, Downsview, Ontario, ECW Press, 1979, and "Hugh Hood: An Annotated Bibliography" also by Struthers, in The Annotated Bibliography of Canada's Major Authors: Volume Five, edited by Robert Lecker and Jack David, Downsview, Ontario, ECW Press, 1984 "Hood, Hugh (1928--)" by Allan Weiss, in his A Comprehensive Bibliography of English-Canadian Short Stories, 1950–1983, Toronto, ECW Press, 1988 . 2Manuscript collections The University of Calgary Libraries, Albert