![]() ![]() A professor of English at Brandon University, Kramer has completed meticulous research for this project: in addition to drawing on existing secondary sources as well as doing many of his own interviews, Kramer has scoured the Richler archive at the University of Calgary to draw on drafts of published and unpublished manuscripts as well as Richler's voluminous body of correspondence. Urbain is a literary biography that focuses on the intersections between Richler's life and his writing. Most recently, Reinhold Kramer's Mordecai Richler: Leaving St. ![]() ![]() His death in 2001 prompted numerous tributes, including two books: Mordecai & Me (2003) a candid memoir of Richler by journalist Joel Yanofsky, and Michael Posner's oral biography, The Last Honest Man (2004), which draws on interviews conducted with Richler's family, friends, and others who knew him. Whether loved or reviled, Richler was a force to be reckoned with in Canadian intellectual life. ![]() A product of Montreal's Jewish immigrant community, Richler's The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (Duddy) and other award-winning novels and his role as political pundit made him a Canadian icon. As one of Canada's most influential novelists and public figures, a scholarly biography of Mordecai Richler has been long in coming. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008. ![]()
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