Dec 28, 2009
Mavis Gallant was born Mavis Young in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on August 11, 1922. Her father, who died when she was ten years old, was Anglo-Scottish; her mother, who soon remarried, was American. At age four, Gallant was sent to a French convent school and subsequently attended a number of boarding schools, completing her education at a New York high school, where she had been sent to live with a guardian.
After returning to Canada, she married John Gallant in 1943 and got a job as a feature reporter with the Montreal Standard, where she worked for...
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