Andrée Maillet

The daughter of Corinne Dupuis and Roger Maillet, she was born in Montreal and began writing by the age of eleven. Maillet began a career in journalism and, from 1943 to 1952, was a correspondent in the United States and Europe. She was a member of the Anglo-American Press Association of Paris for a number of years. From 1952 to 1960, she was director of the magazine Amérique française. She wrote for Photo-Journal and was a columnist for Le Petit Journal which was owned by her father. Maillet founded the French-Canadian chapter of the PEN club. She ran as a candidate for the Rassemblement pour l'Indépendance Nationale in the Westmount provincial riding in 1966, placing fourth. Maillet married Loyd Hamlyn Hobden. She died in Montreal at the age of 74.

• Les Montréalais, stories (1963) • Le chêne des tempêtes (1965), received the first prize for literature from the Province of Québec, youth section, and the medal of the Canadian Association of Children's Librarians • Le Chant de l'Iroquoise, poetry (1967) • Profil de l'orignal, novel (1952) • Les Remparts de Québec, novel (1964) • À la mémoire d'un héros, novel (1975) • Lettres au surhomme (two volumes) novel (1976-1977)