E. K. Brown (1) (1905–1951)

Brown, Edward Killoran [E.K., Eddie, Ed]
(1905–51) Educated at the University of Toronto and at the Sorbonne in Paris, Brown taught English at University College, Toronto (1929–35; 1937–41), the University of Manitoba (1935–37), Cornell University (1941–44), and the University of Chicago (1944–51). Author of scholarly works on a range of subjects from Matthew Arnold to Edith Wharton, Brown was also one of the first critics to write seriously about Canadian literature, winning the Governor-General's award for 1943 for his On Canadian Poetry. He was an editor of The University of Toronto Quarterly (1932–41), for which he wrote the annual survey of Canadian literature, and in 1941 was guest editor of a special 'Canadian' issue of Poetry (Chicago).