Luella Creighton Explained

Luella Creighton
Birth Name:Luella Sanders Bruce
Birth Date:August 25, 1901
Birth Place:Stouffville, Ontario, Canada
Death Date:March 6, 1996
Death Place:Brooklin, Ontario, Canada
Education:Victoria College, Toronto
Occupation:novelist, non-fiction
Period:1950s-1960s
Notableworks:High Bright Buggy Wheels
Spouse:Donald Creighton
Children:Cynthia Flood

Luella Sanders Creighton, née Bruce (August 25, 1901 – March 6, 1996) was a Canadian novelist and non-fiction writer.[1] She is best known to contemporary audiences for her 1951 novel High Bright Buggy Wheels, which was reprinted by McClelland & Stewart's New Canadian Library series in 1978.

Biography

Creighton was born on August 25, 1901, in Stouffville, Ontario, to James William Bruce and Luella Sanders. She taught school locally before attending Victoria College at the University of Toronto and later studying at the Sorbonne in Paris, France. She married Donald Creighton, a historian, on June 23, 1926, and operated a real estate office in Toronto before moving to Brooklin in 1962.[1] [2] Their daughter, Cynthia Flood, is a noted Canadian writer.

Creighton's work included historical fiction, non-fiction and children's literature.[3] She also authored several textbooks, served as a member of the Central Ontario Regional Library Board, and assisted her husband with his writing projects.[2]

Creighton died on March 6, 1996, in Brooklin.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Luella Creighton fonds . archives.uwaterloo.ca . Special Collections & Archives . 12 December 2022.
  2. News: Brooklin author Luella Creighton was 94. 3 May 2016. Whitby Free Press. March 13, 1996. 27.
  3. [W. H. New]