Scott Symons

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Hugh Brennan Scott Symons (born July 13, 1933) is a Canadian writer. Born into a wealthy family, he attended a number of private schools, the University of Toronto, Cambridge University and the Sorbonne. A rising star of Canadian literature in the late 1960s and early 1970s, he wrote two novels with homoerotic themes before leaving Canada to live in Morocco.

Symons is the subject of a documentary film, God's Fool (1998), by Nik Sheehan.

[edit] Bibliography

  • Place d'Armes (1967)
  • Civic Square (1969)
  • Heritage: A Romantic Look at Early Canadian Furniture (1971)
  • Helmet of Flesh (1986)
  • Dear Reader: Selected Scott Symons (1998)