Louis Arthur Cunningham
Categories: Male Authors - Anglophone Authors - Novelists - Authors of Non-Fiction - Fundy Coast
Source: University of New Brunswick
Biography
One of the most popular and prolific authors of his time, Louis Arthur Cunningham was born in Saint John, New Brunswick on 28 September 1900, the son of William John Cunningham and Sarah (McGrath) Cunningham. He earned a BA (1922) and MA (1923) from St. Joseph's University in Memramcook, and then he taught English, French, and Latin at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC (1923-24).
In 1925, Cunningham returned to Saint John to become a full time writer. He published his first story in the same year, and by 1927 had published his first novel, Yvon Tremblay. On 10 July 1929, Cunningham married Hortense Marie Mooney of Saint John.
Enjoying a long and successful career as a popular writer, Cunningham published twenty-eight novels and more than 500 short stories, as well as feature articles which were published in magazines around the world. As he was fascinated by the geography and history of the Maritimes, much of his fiction was set in the region, and his non-fiction articles included topics such as the history of Saint John shipbuilding. He occasionally used the pseudonyms “Merlyn Miller” and “Merlyn Swift.”
Louis Arthur Cunningham died of a heart attack at his home in Hammond River on 13 June 1954.
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Fog Over Fundy (1936) |
Excerpt: She took a cigarette from the black lacquer box on the bedside table, lighted it and watched the blue smoke and thought, there in the warmth of the bed, of last night, of the tempest, the awfulness of the wind, of Damase Blais, the ghostly dikemaster, who somehow didn’t seem so terrible this morning; of the White Roe, of the man named John Gower, who had hell in his eyes; who, washed up by the Fundy tides, spoke from the darkness to the girl Candace--- |
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