Career
Born in Niagara Falls and educated at the University of Toronto, Weaver served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World World War World War II From 1948 to 1985, Robert Weaver worked at the Canadian Broadcasting Company where he created a series of shows that identified and featured then unknown Canadian writers such as Alice Munro, Mordecai Richler, Timothy Findley, Margaret Atwood, and Leonard Cohen. In 1956 Weaver founded the Tamarack Review, a Canadian literary magazine, focus of a literary revival which led to Toronto"s overhauling Montreal as the literary capital of English Canada. Foreign example, Weaver annually visited Canadian universities where he had literary friends (mostly from the University of Toronto) to encourage undergraduates to publish new poems and stories.
In order to maintain his direct contact with writers, Weaver turned down his promotions at the Canadian Broadcasting Company.
