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Max Braithwaite

マックス・ブレイスウェイト

Makkusu Bureisuweito

Aliases: John Victor Maxwell Braithwaite

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1911-12-07 （Nokomis, Saskatchewan）
Died
1995-03-19 （Brighton, Ontario） age 83
Nationality
Canada
Languages
English
Residence History
Nokomis, Saskatchewan → various communities in Saskatchewan → Orangeville, Ontario → Port Carling, Ontario → Brighton, Ontario

Career

Occupations
novelist, non-fiction author
Active Years
1962-1995

Awards

Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour
1972
Work: The Night We Stole the Mountie's Car
Organization: Leacock Associates
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Why Shoot the Teacher?

1965 novel

Semi-autobiographical novel about a young teacher's experiences in a one-room schoolhouse in Saskatchewan during the Depression.

educationrural lifeGreat Depression
Adaptations
  • [film] Why Shoot the Teacher? / Silvio Narizzano (1977)

The Night We Stole the Mountie's Car

1971 humour novel

Collection of humorous anecdotes.

humourCanadian rural life

Bibliography

  • Voices of the Wild
  • The Muffled Man
  • Whooping Crane Adventure
  • Why Shoot the Teacher?
  • Canada: wonderland of surprises
  • Servant or master? A casebook of mass media
  • Never Sleep Three in a Bed
  • The Western Plains
  • The Night We Stole the Mountie's Car
  • A Privilege and a Pleasure
  • Sick kids, the story of the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto
  • Max Braithwaite's Ontario
  • The hungry thirties, 1930-1940
  • Lusty Winter
  • The Commodore's Barge is Alongside
  • McGruber's Folly
  • All the Way Home

Adaptations

  • 1977 Canadian film Why Shoot the Teacher?

Style & Themes

Literary Style
humorous stylecolloquial prose
Recurring Motifs
prairie lifeteaching experiencesCanadian humour

Legacy

Known as a Canadian humourist, winner of the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour. Popular for works depicting prairie life in Saskatchewan.

Trivia

  • Many works based on his teaching experiences.