Frederick P. Grove

Frederick Philip Grove (1879-1948) was born Felix Paul Greve at Radomno, in West Prussia, and first pursued a German literary career: a prolific translator of Wilde, Flaubert and Gide, a poet and novelist, deep in debt, sentenced to a year in prison for fraud. In 1909 he faked his suicide and disappeared. He reappeared in Manitoba under another name, taught in rural schools, gave himself a Swedish origin and an invented childhood that he maintained even in his autobiography. The deception was only discovered in 1971, by Douglas Spettigue, after his death in Ontario.

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• NovelSettlers of the MarshFrederick P. Grove · 1925LiteraturePublic domain