Robert Weaver
Robert Weaver worked as a program organizer and producer for cbc radio from 1948 to 1985, and in that role helped bring to notice such writers as Alice Munro and Mordecai Richler. A prolific editor of anthologies, he was also a driving force behind the well-known literary magazine The Tamarack Review. William Toye , who has contributed a new preface to this printing of Canadian Short Stories, was one of twentieth-century Canadian book publishing's formative figures. He retired in 1991 after...See more
Robert Weaver worked as a program organizer and producer for cbc radio from 1948 to 1985, and in that role helped bring to notice such writers as Alice Munro and Mordecai Richler. A prolific editor of anthologies, he was also a driving force behind the well-known literary magazine The Tamarack Review. William Toye , who has contributed a new preface to this printing of Canadian Short Stories, was one of twentieth-century Canadian book publishing's formative figures. He retired in 1991 after more than forty years with Oxford University Press, but continues to write and edit into his ninth decade. His current project is revising the acclaimed Concise Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature. See less
