Hugh Hood

Hugh John Blagdon Hood (April 30, 1928 - August 1, 2000) was a novelist, short story writer, essayist and university professor. He was born in Toronto, Ontario and died in Montreal, QuebecHood wrote 32 books: seventeen novels including the twelve-volume New Age novel sequence (influenced by Marcel Proust and Anthony Powell), several volumes of short fiction, and five of nonfiction. He taught English literature at the Université de Montréal. In the early nineteen-seventies 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.
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