Kenneth Leslie

Kenneth Leslie (1892-1974), born in Pictou, Nova Scotia, the son of a shipowner elected to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec, studied at Dalhousie, in Nebraska and then at Harvard. A violinist and a Christian socialist, and a member in Halifax of the circle of the Song Fishermen with Charles G. D. Roberts and Bliss Carman, he founded an anti-fascist review in Boston in 1938, which he moved the following year to New York and which denounced antisemitism, including within the Churches. Named by the American press in 1949 among the fellow travellers of communism, he returned that same year to Nova Scotia, where he died.

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• PoetryBy Stubborn Stars and Other PoemsKenneth Leslie · 1938Literature