MacLennan, Hugh (məklĕn`ən), 1907–90, Canadian writer, b. Glace Bay, N. S. From his vantage at McGill Univ. in Montreal where he taught from 1951 to 1981, MacLennan wrote novels and essays that helped define Canadian literature. Among his novels are Barometer Rising (1941); Two Solitudes (1945), a study of the conflicts between English and French Canadians; Each Man's Son (1951); The Watch That Ends the Night (1959); Return of the Sphinx (1967), and Voices in Time (1980). He also published several nonfiction works including Cross Country (1949), Thirty and Three (1955), Scotsman's Return and Other Essays (1960), and The Colour of Canada (1967).

MacLennan, (John) Hugh

(born March 20, 1907, Glace Bay, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Can.—died Nov. 7, 1990, Montreal, Que.) Canadian novelist and essayist. He was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University and earned a doctorate at Princeton, then taught at McGill University (1951–81). His novels include Barometer Rising (1941), Two Solitudes (1945), The Watch That Ends the Night (1959), and Voices in Time (1980). He won five Governor-General's awards for his fiction and nonfiction. He is regarded as the first major English-speaking novelist to use Canadian themes.