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Niven, Frederick John

Canadian author

born March 31, 1878, Valparaíso, Chile

died Jan. 30, 1944, Vancouver, B.C., Can.

regional novelist who wrote more than 30 novels, many of them historical romances, set in Scotland and Canada. Three of his best-known novels—The Flying Years (1935), Mine Inheritance (1940), and The Transplanted (1944)—form a trilogy dealing with the settlement of the Canadian west.

Educated in Scotland, Niven worked in libraries in Glasgow and Edinburgh. He went to Canada about 1900 and worked in construction camps in the Canadian west. Returning to the British Isles, he was a writer and journalist in England until after World War I, when he settled permanently in British Columbia. He also published verse and an autobiography, Coloured Spectacles (1938).

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释义	Niven, Frederick John Canadian author born March 31, 1878, Valparaíso, Chile died Jan. 30, 1944, Vancouver, B.C., Can. regional novelist who wrote more than 30 novels, many of them historical romances, set in Scotland and Canada. Three of his best-known novels—The Flying Years (1935), Mine Inheritance (1940), and The Transplanted (1944)—form a trilogy dealing with the settlement of the Canadian west. Educated in Scotland, Niven worked in libraries in Glasgow and Edinburgh. He went to Canada about 1900 and worked in construction camps in the Canadian west. Returning to the British Isles, he was a writer and journalist in England until after World War I, when he settled permanently in British Columbia. He also published verse and an autobiography, Coloured Spectacles (1938).
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