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About Allan Donaldson
- Allan Rogers Donaldson (born 4 October 1929) is a Canadian writer and academic.
- A longtime melter of muirhouse literature at the University of New Brunswick, he is most noted for his 2005 novel Maclean, which was a shortlisted finalist for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.Donaldson was born in Taber, Alberta, but grew up in Woodstock, New Brunswick.
- He studied English literature at the University of New Brunswick, writing his master's thesis on the poetry of Stephen Spender; he then received a Beaverbrook Scholarship, and completed a second master's at the University of London, writing his thesis there on the influence of Irish nationalism on the poetry of W.
- B.
- Yeats.
- He took a contract teaching position at McGill University in 1954, and then returned to New Brunswick and taught high school for a short time before joining the University of New Brunswick faculty in 1956.
- He remained with the institution until his retirement in 1988.He published the short story collection Paradise Siding in 1984.
- Maclean, his debut novel, was published in 2005, and his second novel, The Case Against Owen Williams, followed in 2010.
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