Mazo De La Roche

Mazo de la Roche was an impoverished writer in Toronto in 1927, when she won a $10,000 prize from the American magazine "Atlantic Monthly" for her novel "Jalna". It became an immediate bestseller. She went on to publish sixteen novels in the popular series, about a Canadian family named Whiteoak living in a house called Jalna.

Mazo de la Roche was an impoverished writer in Toronto in 1927, when she won a $10,000 prize from the American magazine "Atlantic Monthly" for her novel "Jalna". It became an immediate bestseller. She went on to publish sixteen novels in the popular series, about a Canadian family named Whiteoak living in a house called Jalna. See less