Background
Graham, Gwethalyn was born on January 18, 1913 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Daughter of Frank Erichsen and Isabel Russell (MacCurdy) Brown.
Graham, Gwethalyn was born on January 18, 1913 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Daughter of Frank Erichsen and Isabel Russell (MacCurdy) Brown.
Educated Rosedale Public School, Havergal College. Student, Pensionnat Les Allières, Lausanne, Switzerland 1929-1930, Smith College, 1931-1932.
Graham subsequently married David Yalden-Thomson, a philosophy professor at McGill University. They subsequently also divorced. The novel was optioned by Samuel Goldwyn for a film that was to star Katharine Hepburn.
However, the film was never made.
Graham died in 1965 of an undiagnosed brain tumour, aged 52. Graham"s sister, Isabel LeBourdais, was a journalist whose 1966 book The Trial of Steven Truscott played a key role in disputing the evidence that led to Steven Truscott"s controversial murder conviction.
Both Swiss Sonata and Earth and High Heaven were reissued by Cormorant Books in 2004. Graham is the subject of a biography Gwethalyn Graham: a Liberated Woman in a Conventional Age by Barbara Meadowcroft (Toronto: Women"s Press, 2008).
Married September 24, 1932 (divorced). Married second, David C. Yalden-Thomson, 1947.