Lies My Father Told Me

Ted Allan

1949

My grandfather stood six feet three in his worn-out bedroom slippers. He had a long grey beard with streaks of white running through it. When he prayed, his voice boomed like a choir as he turned the pages of his prayer book with one hand and stroked his beard with the other. His hands were bony and looked like tree-roots; they were powerful. My…

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Ted Allan

1916–1995

Novelist, playwright, and short-story writer Ted Allan, born Alan Herman in Montreal, began his writing career at age seventeen in the communist newspaper the Daily Clarion and followed with short stories in the left-leaning New Frontier. He fought on the communist side in the Spanish Civil War, during which time he met Canadian physician Norman Bethune, on whom his book The Scalpel, the Sword (1954) was based. Working in Hollywood in the 1950s, Allan was blacklisted due to McCarthyism; he moved to London and wrote for British radio and television for twenty-five years. Upon his return to North America, he collaborated on several movie scripts, including his Lies My Father Told Me, before his death in Toronto.

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