Miriam Waddington

Miriam Waddington studied at University of Toronto, University of Pennsylvania and York University. The recorded working language is English and Yiddish. The field of work recorded is literature, poetry and translation into English. Residence is recorded at Ottawa and Montreal. Employment is recorded with University of York.

• Name — Miriam Waddington • Pen Name — E. B. Merrit • Birth Name — Miriam Dworkin • Born — 23 December 1917 • Birthplace — Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada • Died — 3 March 2004 • Place of death — Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada • Notable Works — Driving Home: Poems New and Selected

Miriam Waddington was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, she studied English at the University of Toronto (B.A. 1939) and social work at the University of Pennsylvania (M.A.). She worked for many years as a social worker in Montreal, Quebec. She later relocated to the then Toronto suburb of North York, where she worked for North York Family Services. In 1964, she joined the English department at York University. She retired in 1983. She died in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on 3 March 2004 after suffering a stroke in late February. After her death, much of her own works and personal library were donated by her sons to the archives of Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia. The donation was a significant and appreciated endowment. Her archival fonds is held at Library and Archives Canada in Ottawa.

• Green World. Montreal: First Statement, 1945. • The Second Silence. Toronto: Ryerson, 1955. • The Season's Lovers. Toronto: Ryerson, 1958. • Four Poems. n.p.: n.p., 196-? • The Glass Trumpet. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1966. • Flying with Milton. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Unicorn Press, 1969. • Say Yes. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1969. • Dream Telescope. London: Anvil Press Poetry, 1972. • Driving Home: Poems New and Selected. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1972. • The Price of Gold. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1976. • Mister Never. Winnipeg: Turnstone Press, 1978. • The Visitants. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1981. • Collected Poems. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1986. • The Last Landscape. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1992. • Canada: Romancing the Land - 1996 • Advice to the Young

• Summer at Lonely Beach and Other Stories. Oakville, ON: Mosaic Press, 1982.

• A.M. Klein. Toronto: Copp Clark Publishing, 1970. • Folklore in the Poetry of A.M. Klein. St. John's, NF: Memorial University, 1981. • Apartment Seven: Essays New and Selected. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1989.

• Waddington, Miriam, ed. The Collected Poems of A.M. Klein. Toronto: Mc-Graw-Hill Ryerson, 1974. • Waddington, Miriam, ed. John Sutherland: Essays, Controversies and Poems. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1972. Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy Brock University.