Max Braithwaite
Novelist, Author
1911 – 1995
Who was Max Braithwaite?
John Victor Maxwell Braithwaite was a Canadian novelist and non-fiction author.
Braithwaite was born in Nokomis, Saskatchewan and spent his youth in a number of communities in that province. As an adult he moved to Ontario, living in communities such as Orangeville, Port Carling and finally Brighton where he died at age 83.
He won the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour in 1972 for his book The Night We Stole the Mountie's Car.
The 1977 Canadian film Why Shoot the Teacher? was based on Braithwaite's 1965 novel of that name.
1962: Voices of the Wild
1962: The Muffled Man ISBN 0-17-602593-6
1963: Whooping Crane Adventure
1988 reissue ISBN 0-7715-6899-1
1965: Why Shoot the Teacher ISBN 0-7710-1599-2, ISBN 0-7710-1602-6
2002 paperback reissue ISBN 0-7710-1632-8
1967: Canada: wonderland of surprises
1968?: Servant or master? A casebook of mass media
1969: Never Sleep Three in a Bed
1971: The Night We Stole the Mountie's Car ISBN 0-7710-1601-8, ISBN 0-7710-1603-4
1975 paperback reissue ISBN 0-7710-1603-4
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