About the Author

Eli Mandel was born in 1922, in Estavan, Saskatechewan. Winner of the Governor-Generals Award for Poetry and a Member of the order of Canada, his books include Out of Place, Life Sentence, Dreaming Backwards, An Idiot Joy, and Contexts of Canadian Criticism.

Reviews

"The quality of Mandel's criticism is uniformly high. He grinds no particular literary axe, speaks for no school but the school of intelligent inquiry."