Background
Alfred Earle was born on May 13, 1904, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
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Alfred Earle was born on May 13, 1904, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Bachelor of Arts, University B.C., 1926;
postgraduate, University of California-Berkeley, 1927-1930;
Master of Arts, University Toronto, 1927;
Doctor of Philosophy, University Toronto, 1936;
postgraduate, U. London, 1934-1935;
Doctor of Laws, University Alberta, 1965;
Doctor of Literature, McGill University, 1979;
Doctor of Literature, U. Western Ontario, 1984;
Doctor of Literature, U. B.C., 1987.
Summer school lecturer, U. B.C., 1927-1937;
instructor, U. Utah, 1930-1932, 33-34;
lecturer, U. Toronto, 1936-1940;
assistant professor, U. Toronto, 1940-1942;
Professor of English, U. B.C., 1946-1962;
head department creative writing, U. B.C., 1963-1965;
writer-in-residence, U. Toronto, 1965-1967;
writer-in-residence, U. Waterloo, Ontario, 1967-1968;
writer-in-residence, U. Western Ontario, 1981-1982;
Regents professor, University of California at Irvine, 1968. Supervisor foreign language broadcasts to Europe Radio Canada, 1945-1946. Visiting professor.creative writing U. Oregon, 1961.
Literature adviser Canada Council, 1965-1967.
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Served with Canadian Army, 1942-1945. Fellow Royal Society Canada.
Married Esther Bull, March, 1940 (divorced 1978). 1 son, William Laurenson.