Clara Thomas, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Clara Thomas

Canadian academic

Date of Birth: 22-May-1919

Place of Birth: Strathroy-Caradoc, Ontario, Canada

Date of Death: 26-Sep-2013

Profession: biographer, academic, literary critic

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Clara Thomas (née McCandless; May 22, 1919 – September 26, 2013) was a Canadian academic.
A longtime professor of English at York University, she was one of the first academics to devote her work specifically to the study of Canadian literature, and was especially known for her studies of Canadian women writers such as Anna Brownell Jameson, Susanna Moodie, Catharine Parr Traill, Isabella Valancy Crawford and Margaret Laurence.