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Biography

Name: (James) Sinclair Ross
Variant Name: Sinclair Ross, James Sinclair Ross
Birth Date: January 22, 1908
Death Date: February 29, 1996
Nationality: Canadian
Gender: Male

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Biography of (James) Sinclair Ross
2,654 words, approx. 9 pages
Sinclair Ross is best known for his prairie fiction. His first novel, As For Me and My House (1941), and his most recent, Sawbones Memorial (1974), along with his short stories are his most memorable works. James Sinclair Ross was born on 22 January...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Sinclair Ross Information
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James Sinclair Ross (January 22, 1908 - February 29, 1996) was a Canadian banker and author, best known for his fiction about life in the Canadian prairies. Ross was born on a homestead near Shellbrook, Saskatchewan. At the age of seven, his parents...


News and Journals
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American Review of Canadian Studies
As for Sinclair Ross.
12/22/2006: 1,700 words, approx. 6 pages
David F. Stouck. As for Sinclair Ross. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. xv + 353 pp. $45.00 cloth. Sinclair Ross's novel As for Me and My House had an enormous influence on developments in 20th-century Canadian letters, from mid-century to the...
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Artforum International
Ross Sinclair.
09/01/1999: 666 words, approx. 2 pages
THE AGENCY As part of Ross Sinclair's recent show, he ran a stall in one of London's street markets for a day. You could buy T-shirts, mugs, key rings, and pens, all bearing the legend "I ?? Real Life." For Sinclair, "real...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Ken Mitchell
7,814 words, approx. 26 pages
In the following excerpt, Mitchell surveys the major themes of Ross's short fiction.
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Critical Essay by Karen Bishop
7,231 words, approx. 24 pages
In the following essay, Bishop traces the metaphor of the horse in Ross's childhood stories, maintaining that the image of the horse "becomes the enspiriting essence of the imagination. "
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Critical Essay by David Carpenter
6,065 words, approx. 20 pages
In the following essay, Carpenter offers an overview of the critical reaction to Ross's short fiction and notes the comic elements in eight of his stories.
 
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Essay Grade: 83%
"A Field of Wheat" Response
1,021 words, approx. 3 pages
A review of the short story "A Field of Wheat" by Sinclair Ross, in which the wife of a wheat farmer struggles to find her place in her marriage during the 1930s. Although the story is not captivating, it shows the resiliency of the human spirit, as Martha and John kept on despite their terrible living conditions, their isolation, and the harshness of the land that John farmed.


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