The Mountain Man of Letters

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The Mountain Man of Letters

Howard O’Hagan was one of the first native-born westerners to make a mark on Canadian literature. The purpose of this collection of essays on the works of O’Hagan, edited by Sergiy Yakovenko, is not only to refresh scholarship on his best known work, Tay John, but also to break the vicious circle of ignoring O’Hagan’s other works—his later novel The School-Marm Tree (1977) and his short stories and sketches, collected in Wilderness Men (1958) and The Woman Who Got on at Jasper Station and Other Stories (1963). This volume offers two original articles on The School-Marm Tree, by Renée Hulan and Carl Watts, and Albert Braz’s profound study of O’Hagan’s Wilderness Men. Among the other contributors: Joseph Pivato, D.M.R. Bentley, Kylee-Anne Hingston, Jack Robinson, Sergiy Yakovenko, and something from Howard O’Hagan himself.

AUTHOR

Sergiy Yakovenko

Sergiy Yakovenko is a writer and academic. He has taught at the University of Alberta, Grant MacEwan University, and at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. From 2007-2009, he was a Senior Fellow at the International School of Ukrainian Studies at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He lives in Edmonton, Alberta.