Herbert Rolland Percy (August 6, 1920 – December 17, 1996) was a British-born Canadian writer."Percy, H. R.". The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature, Second Edition. Oxford University Press, 1997. . He was best known for his novel Painted Ladies, a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 1983 Governor General's Awards."Governor-General's Awards 22 authors named finalists". The Globe and Mail, May 19, 1984.
Born in Burham, Kent, England, Percy served for much of his working life in the Royal Navy and the Royal Canadian Navy.H.R. Percy fonds. -- 1931-1994. McMaster University. He published his first volume of short stories, The Timeless Island, in 1960, and concentrated more extensively on writing after his retirement from the navy in 1971 with the rank of lieutenant commander.
In addition to novels and short stories, he also published biographies of Joseph Howe and Thomas Chandler Haliburton, and was an editor of Canadian Author and Bookman, the trade magazine of the Canadian Authors Association.
He died in 1996.
Works The Timeless Island (1960) Joseph Howe (1976, ) Flotsam (1978, ) Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1980, ) Painted Ladies (1983, ) A Model Lover (1986, ) Tranter's Tree (1987, ) An Innocent Bystander (1989, ) The Mother Tongue (1992, )
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