URI(s)
Variants
- Ross, James Sinclair
Identifies LC/NAF RWO
Identifies RWO
Birth Date
- 1908-01-22
Death Date
- 1996-02-29
Has Affiliation
- Organization: Order of Canada
Descriptor
- Member of the Order of Canada
Birth Place
- Saskatchewan
Field of Activity
(lcsh) Prairie Provinces--Fiction
Occupation
Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Sources
- found: His As for me and my house, ©1941
- found: The lamp at noon and other stories, ©1968:t.p. (Sinclair Ross)
- found: As for Sinclair Ross, ©2005:p. 3 (James Sinclair Ross; b. Jan. 22, 1908 in northern Saskatchewan)
- found: Wikipedia, Nov. 21, 2006(Sinclair Ross; James Sinclair Ross (Jan. 22, 1908-Feb. 29, 1996); Canadian banker and author)
- found: The Canadian encyclopedia online, viewed 27 November 2017:Sinclair Ross (one of Canada's most respected writers; born James Sinclair Ross at Shellbrook, Saskatchewan, 22 Jan 1908; left school at 16 to join the Royal Bank of Canada as a clerk, retiring in 1968; wrote in his spare time, with his first story published in 1934 and his first novel published in 1941; most fiction is set on the Canadian prairies; lived in Greece and Spain, returning to Canada in 1980; died at Vancouver, British Columbia, 29 February 1996)
- found: Canada. Governor General. Honours Recipients database, 27 November 2017(Sinclair Ross, C.M.; Vancouver, British Columbia; Member of the Order of Canada, awarded on April 30, 1992, invested on October 26, 1992; He is one of Canada's most distinguished writers and a critic whose novel, As For Me and My House, is a cornerstone of our literary heritage. Revered by other Canadian authors and widely read, he offers a vision of prairie life and of his own land that has been a powerful influence on subsequent generations of writers; deceased on February 29, 1996)
- found: Amicus database, 27 November 2017(authorized access point (0103F4507): Ross, Sinclair, 1908-1996)
LC Classification
- PR9199.3.R599
Instance Of
Scheme Membership(s)
Collection Membership(s)
Change Notes
- 1978-12-12: new
- 2023-09-08: revised
Alternate Formats