"Educating the mind without educating the heart
is no education at all.”

Aristotle

"It's not typically a ringing endorsement when I tell you in November about the book I've been reading since June, but this is no ordinary book. Margaret Laurence and Jack McClelland, Letters, edited by Laura K. Davis and Linda M. Morra, has been one of the highlights of my literary 2018, a mainstay on my bedside which I'd pick up and read a couple of pages from every night." 

Kerry Clare, Pickle Me This

"Few epistolary volumes have as strong a claim to true importance as Margaret Laurence and Jack McClelland, which captures the life and character of both an essential Canadian writer and one of the most industrious publishers in Canadian history."

Jeffrey Weingarten, Canadian Literature, a Quarterly of Criticism and Review

"For scholars, this volume offers a wealth of insight into Canadian publishing history and into Laurence's creative practice... These entertaining letters tell an absorbing story about the development of Canadian literary culture, as well as about the relationship of two extraordinary individuals. As the editors note, 'It is difficult not to be seduced by Margaret Laurence and Jack McClelland's correspondence." 

Faye Hamill, Times Literary Supplement 

"Laura K. Davis's Margaret Laurence Writes Africa and Canada is a must-read book for all interested in Laurence studies, postcolonial studies, and African studies."

Mahesh Kumar Dey, British Journal of Canadian Studies

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