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...Roger Lemelin, TIME'S correspondent in Quebec City, Que., finished his fourth book last month, just a little more than two years behind schedule. The schedule was something Lemelin imposed on himself in 1948 while he was working on his second book, a long (470 pages) novel, Les Plouffe (The Plouffe Family). His second child had just been born. So Lemelin told his friends: "For each new child, a new book...
...Lemelin was keeping pretty close to that pace when his third child was expected in June 1950 and he was well along with a group of short stories entitled Fantasies on the Seven Deadly Sins. But nature intervened. This time his wife bore him a set of twins. So Lemelin had to set to work on his fourth, and what he considers his best, book: Pierre le Magnifique (a name he had given earlier to his first child...
...Lemelin is a successful businessman, a chess champion, a former skiing champion and, in the judgment of many leading critics, French Canada's outstanding novelist. In addition, TIME's writers and researchers have found him to be a discriminating reporter, with a knack of transferring his vivid French style to colorful phrases in his self-taught English. In discussing TIME, for instance, he writes: "TIME is a magazine always faithful to its manner as a stone is faithful to its hardness. I like that. What is a TIME story? It is a common fact or human being which...
...Lemelin grew up in the dingy St.-Sauveur district of Quebec's Lower Town. He describes his mother as "the most beautiful girl in St.-Sauveur" and his father as "a wonderful man who bought me a rebuilt typewriter for $80, at installments of $5 a month." Lemelin's business acumen and his taste for literature showed themselves almost simultaneously. At 14, he organized a group of boys to shovel snow off doorsteps, at 5? each. In the process, he stumbled across a large building filled with books - the provincial library - and, upon inquiring, learned he could borrow...
...Lemelin had won the junior ski-jumping championship of Quebec and had started to become a promising local boxer. While practicing for the Canadian skiing championships, however, he fell and broke his left ankle. A resulting infection helped keep him in the hospital eleven months...