Background
The daughter of Corinne Dupuis and Roger Maillet, she was born in Montreal and began writing by the age of eleven.
journalist novelist writer poet
The daughter of Corinne Dupuis and Roger Maillet, she was born in Montreal and began writing by the age of eleven.
Maillet began a career in journalism and, from 1943 to 1952, was a correspondent in the United States and Europe. From 1952 to 1960, she was director of the magazine Amérique française. She wrote for Photo-Journal and was a columnist for the Petit Journal which was owned by her father.
Maillet founded the French-Canadian chapter of the Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association club
She ran as a candidate for the Rassemblement pour l"Indépendance Nationale in the Westmount provincial riding in 1966, placing fourth. Maillet married Loyd Hamlyn Hobden.
She died in Montreal at the age of 74.
She was a member of the Anglo-American Press Association of Paris for a number of years.