Hugh Hood


Hugh John Blagdon Hood, OC was a Canadian novelist, short story writer, essayist and university professor.
Hood wrote 32 books: 17 novels including the 12-volume New Age novel sequence, several volumes of short fiction, and 5 of nonfiction. He taught English literature at the Université de Montréal. In the early 1970s he and fellow authors Clark Blaise, Raymond Fraser, John Metcalf and Ray Smith formed the well-known Montreal Story Tellers Fiction Performance Group, which popularized the public reading of fiction in Canada. In 1988, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.

Novels

  1. The Swing in the Garden
  2. A New Athens
  3. Reservoir Ravine
  4. Black and White Keys
  5. The Scenic Art
  6. The Motor Boys in Ottawa
  7. Tony's Book
  8. Property & Value
  9. Be Sure to Close Your Eyes
  10. Dead Men's Watches
  11. Great Realizations
  12. Near Water

    Short stories

The University of Calgary Libraries, Alberta.

Critical studies