Arthur Mayse

Arthur Mayse was born in 1912 on the Peguis Indian Reserve, Manitoba, the son of Baptist missionaries. He began his writing career at age twelve with a story sold to the Toronto Star Weekly. As an adult, Mayse joined the Vancouver Daily Province and, later, the Vancouver Sun. He served two years as Fiction Editor at Maclean’s, before resigning to focus on his own short stories; more than three-dozen appeared in the Saturday Evening Post alone. His other novels include The Desperate Search (1952), Morgan’s Mountain (1960), and Hardliner’s Island (1990). Arthur Mayse died in 1992.