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Canadian writer (1922–2014)

Mavis Leslie de Trafford Gallant, CC, née Young (11 August 1922 – 18 February 2014), was a Canadian writer who spent much of her life and career in France.^[1] Best known as a short story writer, she also published novels, plays and essays.^[1]

Personal life

Gallant was born in Montreal, Quebec, the only child of Albert Stewart Roy de Trafford Young, a Canadian furniture salesman and painter who was the son of an officer in the British Army,^[2] and his wife, Benedictine Wiseman.

Young died in 1932 of kidney disease,^[2] and his widow soon remarried and moved to New York, leaving their daughter behind with a guardian.^[1] Gallant did not learn of her father's death for several years and later told The New York Times: "I had a mother who should not have had children, and it's as simple as that."^[3]

Gallant was educated at 17 public, private, and convent schools in the