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KNISTER, JOHN RAYMOND , author, editor, and journalist, b. 27 May 1899 in Rochester Township (Lakeshore), Ont., son of Robert Walter Knister and Elizabeth (Liza) Banks, m. 8
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KNISTER, JOHN RAYMOND , author, editor, and journalist, b. 27 May 1899 in Rochester Township (Lakeshore), Ont., son of Robert Walter Knister and Elizabeth (Liza) Banks, m. 8 June 1927 Myrtle Maggie Bessie Gamble in Toronto, and they had a daughter, d. 29 Aug. 1932 at Stony (Stoney) Point, Ont. John Raymond Knister, one of the most important figures in Canadian literature in the early 20th century, was of German stock, his paternal great-grandfather having immigrated from Germany to Essex County, Upper Canada, after the Napoleonic Wars. His father was a prominent farmer in Essex and Kent counties, growing corn and soybeans and importing Clydesdale horses from Scotland, his mother was a teacher, and one of his relatives was Dr Charles Knister, whose fine home – one of the first in the area with telephone service, to accommodate his medical practice – still stands. Young Raymond (he went by his middle name only) therefore grew up in a farming environment and yet also had exposure to a world of sophistication and elegance. Afflicted with a stutter that would remain with him throughout his life, he was a shy boy who, when not busy with farm chores, read voraciously, poring over more than a thousand books between the ages of 15 and 25. In 1919 he entered Victoria College at the University of Toronto, while there he published essays on Cervantes and Robert Louis Stevenson in Acta Victoriana (Toronto), and wrote stories and poems about rural life that appeared in farming periodicals. One of his teachers at Victoria was Oscar Pelham Edgar*, who was to remain a supporter of his literary endeavours in the years ahead. Raymond’s scholastic career ended in 1920, however, when he contracted pneumonia (which may have resulted from a bout of Spanish influenza). After recovering at home, he worked on the family farm and continued writing poetry, short stories, and magazine articles, as well as book reviews for the Detroit Free Press and the Windsor Border Cities Star . Most of these writings drew on his farm experiences. In 1923 he moved to Iowa City, where besides taking university courses, he became an associate editor of the Midland , a literary magazine of some importance, founded by the well-known critic H. L. Mencken. It had already published several of Knister’s poems. The next year, still struggling to become a full-time writer, he moved to Chicago. There he wrote by day and drove a cab by night, contributing review articles to Poetry magazine and the local Evening Post . His experiences in a city then known for its criminal underworld were the basis of his story “Innocent man,” in which a cab driver is arrested and spends a night in jail with the gangsters who had taken over his car. In 1925 Knister was made a correspondent for the journal This Quarter (published mainly in Paris), whose writers included many major literary figures, among them James Joyce, Carl Sandburg, and Ernest Hemingway. In 1926 Knister became engaged to Marion Mckenzie Font, whom he had met at the University of Iowa, however, the relationship broke down over religious objections from both his and her parents – the former were Protestants, the latter Catholics – and over Marion’s insistence that he give up writing for a more lucrative occupation. Later that year, on moving to Toronto, he met Myrtle Gamble, a dressmaker and former student at the Ontario College of Art (one of her teachers had been Arthur Lismer*), they married in the spring of 1927. Myrtle reportedly found Raymond’s “habit of quoting poetry” and his “outrageous sense of humour” charming, and she provided steadfast support of his career as a writer. His return to Toronto was a crossroads in another way. There he became part of a literary circle that included writers such as Morley Edward Callaghan*, Mazo de la Roche*, Merrill Denison*, and Charles George Douglas Roberts*, and he published short stories in the Toronto Star Weekly and William Arthur Deacon*’s Saturday Night , the Star Weekly stories were set in the fictional community of Corncob Corners. Ryerson Press of Toronto accepted for publication his Windfalls for cider , a collection of nature poems, though the book did not appear until 1983, long after his death. Before the end of the decade, Knister had edited an anthology, Canadian short stories (1928), and published his first novel, White narcissus (1929), works that greatly enhanced his position in Canadian literature. In 1929 the Knisters moved to a farmhouse near Port Dover, and it was there that Raymond completed My star predominant , a fictional treatment of John Keats’s last years, which would win first prize in a literary competition but would, like his nature poems, be published posthumously, because of the sponsoring publisher’s financial difficulties, Raymond was to receive only part of the prize money. Two years later he relocated once more, this time to Montreal, with Myrtle and their one-year-old daughter, Imogen.
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KNISTER, JOHN RAYMOND , author, editor, and journalist, b. 27 May 1899 in Rochester Township (Lakeshore), Ont., son of Robert Walter Knister and Elizabeth (Liza) Banks, m. 8
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KNISTER, JOHN RAYMOND , author, editor, and journalist, b. 27 May 1899 in Rochester Township (Lakeshore), Ont., son of Robert Walter Knister and Elizabeth (Liza) Banks, m. 8 June 1927 Myrtle Maggie Bessie Gamble in Toronto, and they had a daughter, d. 29 Aug. 1932 at Stony (Stoney) Point, Ont. John Raymond Knister, one of the most important figures in Canadian literature in the early 20th century, was of German stock, his paternal great-grandfather having immigrated from Germany to Essex County, Upper Canada, after the Napoleonic Wars. His father was a prominent farmer in Essex and Kent counties, growing corn and soybeans and importing Clydesdale horses from Scotland, his mother was a teacher, and one of his relatives was Dr Charles Knister, whose fine home – one of the first in the area with telephone service, to accommodate his medical practice – still stands. Young Raymond (he went by his middle name only) therefore grew up in a farming environment and yet also had exposure to a world of sophistication and elegance. Afflicted with a stutter that would remain with him throughout his life, he was a shy boy who, when not busy with farm chores, read voraciously, poring over more than a thousand books between the ages of 15 and 25. In 1919 he entered Victoria College at the University of Toronto, while there he published essays on Cervantes and Robert Louis Stevenson in Acta Victoriana (Toronto), and wrote stories and poems about rural life that appeared in farming periodicals. One of his teachers at Victoria was Oscar Pelham Edgar*, who was to remain a supporter of his literary endeavours in the years ahead. Raymond’s scholastic career ended in 1920, however, when he contracted pneumonia (which may have resulted from a bout of Spanish influenza). After recovering at home, he worked on the family farm and continued writing poetry, short stories, and magazine articles, as well as book reviews for the Detroit Free Press and the Windsor Border Cities Star . Most of these writings drew on his farm experiences. In 1923 he moved to Iowa City, where besides taking university courses, he became an associate editor of the Midland , a literary magazine of some importance, founded by the well-known critic H. L. Mencken. It had already published several of Knister’s poems. The next year, still struggling to become a full-time writer, he moved to Chicago. There he wrote by day and drove a cab by night, contributing review articles to Poetry magazine and the local Evening Post . His experiences in a city then known for its criminal underworld were the basis of his story “Innocent man,” in which a cab driver is arrested and spends a night in jail with the gangsters who had taken over his car. In 1925 Knister was made a correspondent for the journal This Quarter (published mainly in Paris), whose writers included many major literary figures, among them James Joyce, Carl Sandburg, and Ernest Hemingway. In 1926 Knister became engaged to Marion Mckenzie Font, whom he had met at the University of Iowa, however, the relationship broke down over religious objections from both his and her parents – the former were Protestants, the latter Catholics – and over Marion’s insistence that he give up writing for a more lucrative occupation. Later that year, on moving to Toronto, he met Myrtle Gamble, a dressmaker and former student at the Ontario College of Art (one of her teachers had been Arthur Lismer*), they married in the spring of 1927. Myrtle reportedly found Raymond’s “habit of quoting poetry” and his “outrageous sense of humour” charming, and she provided steadfast support of his career as a writer. His return to Toronto was a crossroads in another way. There he became part of a literary circle that included writers such as Morley Edward Callaghan*, Mazo de la Roche*, Merrill Denison*, and Charles George Douglas Roberts*, and he published short stories in the Toronto Star Weekly and William Arthur Deacon*’s Saturday Night , the Star Weekly stories were set in the fictional community of Corncob Corners. Ryerson Press of Toronto accepted for publication his Windfalls for cider , a collection of nature poems, though the book did not appear until 1983, long after his death. Before the end of the decade, Knister had edited an anthology, Canadian short stories (1928), and published his first novel, White narcissus (1929), works that greatly enhanced his position in Canadian literature. In 1929 the Knisters moved to a farmhouse near Port Dover, and it was there that Raymond completed My star predominant , a fictional treatment of John Keats’s last years, which would win first prize in a literary competition but would, like his nature poems, be published posthumously, because of the sponsoring publisher’s financial difficulties, Raymond was to receive only part of the prize money. Two years later he relocated once more, this time to Montreal, with Myrtle and their one-year-old daughter, Imogen.
