Born on a homestead farm in rural Saskatchewan, Sinclair Ross went on to publish four novels and several classic short stories about Canadian prairie life. Working primarily as a banker, Ross published infrequently. For his banking career, Ross moved to several Canadian towns and cities before he retired in 1968. After living in Europe and publishing his third and fourth novels, Ross developed Parkinson's disease and spent the last period of his life in a Vancouver nursing home.
For his contributions to Canadian culture, Ross received the Order of Canada in 1992. After his death in 1996, a biography released the next year revealed details of Ross's closeted homosexuality. In 2018,...
