William Robertson Davies , CC, FRSC, FRSL (died in Orangeville, Ontario) 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 sometimes said to have detested. Davies was the founding Master of Massey College, a graduate college at the University of Toronto. Novels: The Salterton Trilogy • Tempest-tost (1951) • Leaven of Malice (1954) • A Mixture of Frailties (1958) The Deptford Trilogy • Fifth Business (1970) • The Manticore (1972) • World of Wonders (1975) The Cornish Trilogy • The Rebel Angels (1981) • What's Bred in the Bone (1985) • The Lyre of Orpheus (1988) The Toronto Trilogy (Davies' final, incomplete, trilogy) • Murther and Walking Spirits (1991) • The Cunning Man (1994) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robertso...