William O. Mitchell (W.O.) was born in 1914 at Weyburn, Saskatchewan. He grew up in Florida and came back to Canada in 1931 to study at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. After travelling around North America and Europe he finished his BA at the University of Alberta and became a rural school teacher. He gave this up in 1944 to write full-time and was published in 1947 with _Who has seen the wind_. From 1948 to 1951 he was the fiction editor for _McLeans Magazine_ and lived in Toronto, Ontario. He published a number of books, radio shows and poetry. Mitchel died in 1998. (Taken from: _The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English_. Great Britain: Cambridge University Press, 1993.)
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