George Elliott (Canadian writer)

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George Elliott (1923-1996) was a Canadian novelist. He should not be confused with novelist George Elliott Clarke, British novelist George Eliot, British screenwriter George Anthony Elliott or American poet George P. Elliott.

Elliott attended the University of Toronto, where he was an editor for the student newspaper, The Varsity. He later became editor of the Strathroy Age-Dispatch, as well as Strathroy correspondent for the London Free Press. He later became a reporter and editor with the Timmins Daily Press.

Elliott published his first novel, The Kissing Man, in 1962.

See also Southern Ontario Gothic.