Mary Quayle Innis
Mary Emma Quayle Innis was a writer and historian.Life
Mary Quayle Innis was born April 13, 1899 in St Mary's, Ohio. Her father was a telephone engineer. She began a BA at the University of Chicago in 1915, taking a leave to do war service in Washington, before returning to complete her studies in 1918. In the pursuit of that degree, she took a class in Political Economy taught by Harold Innis. They were married in Chicago in 1921, and moved to Toronto, where she continued to write. Together they had four children, Donald, Mary, Hugh, and Anne.
Innis served as the Dean of Women at University College from 1955-1964.
Innis published over eighty short stories along with a novel, four edited collections and several historical books and articles. She received an honorary doctorate from Queen's University in 1958 and another from the University of Waterloo in 1965.
Innis died in Toronto on January 10, 1972.Select bibliography
