Timeless: Calgary publisher celebrates W.O. Mitchell's iconic Who Has Seen the Wind with 75th anniversary edition yyc
His classic 1947 novel is renowned for presenting an earnest picture of rustic prairie life during the Depression. But when Mitchell landed a deal to have the novel published in digest form for the American magazine Ladies’ Home Journal for $5,000, he went to town.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary Herald, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
It’s also a book that seems poised for rediscovery. Enter Freehand Books, Calgary’s acclaimed independent publisher of literary fiction and non-fiction. Earlier this month, it released a handsome 75th-anniversary edition of the book, complete with illustrations by Alberta-born artist William Kurelek and with a new foreword by writer and poet Frances Itani and afterwards by Mitchell’s son Orm and daughter-in-law Barbara.
Kelsey Attard, managing editor of Freehand Books, says she has heard similar stories. Because so many children and teens were assigned the book in school, it may not always be remembered fondly. But book lovers who return to the book tend to get more out of it as adults. Attard somehow managed to make it through school without ever having read it.
George Melnyk, literary historian, retired University of Calgary professor and author of the two-volume Literary History of Alberta, says while Who Has Seen the Wind is set in Saskatchewan, it kicked off a new era for Alberta literature.
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