William Robertson Davies, CC, OOnt, FRSC, FRSL was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. He was one of Canada's best-known and most popular authors, and one of its most distinguished "men of letters", a term Davies is variously said to have gladly accepted for himself and to have detested. Davies was the founding Master of Massey College, a graduate residential college associated with the University of Toronto. Robertson Davies was born in Renfrew, Ontario. Growing up, Davies was surrounded by books and language. His father, Senator William Rupert Davies, was a... newspaperman, and both parents were voracious readers. He, in turn, read everything he could. He also participated in theatrical productions as a child, when he developed a lifelong interest in drama. He attended Upper Canada College in Toronto from 1926 to 1932 and while there attended services at the Church of St. Mary Magdalene. He would later leave the Presbyterian Church and convert to Anglicanism over objections to Calvinist theology.
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| Birthdate: | August 28, 1913 |
| Birthplace: | Thamesville, Ontario |
| Date of death: | December 2, 1995 |
| Education: | Upper Canada College, Queen's University |
| Religion: | Anglicanism |
| Also known as: | William Robertson Davies |