L. A. MacKay

Louis Alexander MacKay (1901-1982), born in Hensall, Ontario, studied classics at Toronto and then at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, and made a career as a professor of Latin at Toronto, at the University of British Columbia, and finally at Berkeley, where he taught until his retirement in 1968. Assistant editor of the Canadian Forum in the early thirties, he also contributed critical essays to it, and signed his first collection with the pseudonym John Smalacombe. A Guggenheim fellow in 1945, he died in Berkeley.

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• PoetryThe Ill-Tempered Lover and Other PoemsL. A. MacKay · 1948Literature