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This article presents a research guide to the life and works of author Hugh MacLennan. He was born on March 20, 1907 in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada, a coal mining company town in which his father was a surgeon. In 1941, Barometer Rising, set in Halifax at the time of the 1917 explosion, was the third novel MacLennan wrote but the first to be published, appeared and was a success. Elspeth Cameron has done a thorough job of researching MacLennan's life, examining letters and other primary sources, conducting interviews, and receiving cooperation from MacLennan himself, who has remarked that Cameron knows more about his life than he does. Hugh MacLennan: A Writer's Life, by Cameron, is a definitive biography, not likely to be outdated by the emergence of any new material. As MacLennan pioneered the introduction of nationalist themes in Canadian fiction, critical emphasis has been on seeing him as a Canadian writer. Thus, critical discussions tend to approach MacLennan's novels thematically.