McGill Library
McLennan Library Building3459 rue McTavish
Montreal, Quebec
H3A 0C9
Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Ross, Malcolm, 1911-2002
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1911-2002
History
Malcolm Mackenzie Ross was born on January 2, 1911, in Fredericton, New Brunswick.
He was a Canadian literary critic, editor, and educator. He was educated at the University of New Brunswick (B.A., 1933), the University of Toronto (M.A., 1934), and Cornell University (Ph.D., 1941). After teaching briefly at the universities of Indiana and Manitoba, he was appointed Professor of English at Queen’s University, where he served as Head of the Department of English (1957-1960) and held the James Cappon Professorship in English from 1960 to 1962. Then he was a Professor of English and the Dean of Arts at the University of Toronto (1962-1968). From 1968 to 1982, he was a Thomas McCulloch Professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax. As a founding and general editor of McClelland and Stewart's New Canadian Library (1958-1978), he prepared the ground for the flowering of Canadian fiction that has now won international recognition. In 1976, Ross was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and received at least ten honorary degrees from various universities and numerous awards, including the Lorne Pierce Medal of the Royal Society of Canada and the Northern Telecom International Award in Canadian Studies. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and served as its president from 1970 to 1971.
In 1938, he married Lois Natalie Hall (1915–1996). He died on November 4, 2002, in Halifax, Nova Scotia.