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MAYNARD, FREDELLE BRUSER (1922–1989), writer. Born in Foam Lake, Saskatchewan, to Boris and Rona Bruser (née Slobinsky).

She studied English literature (Honors B.A., University of Manitoba (1943); M.A., University of Toronto (1944); Ph.D., Radcliffe College, Harvard University (1947)).

Maynard belongs to a generation of Jewish Canadian women writers that included Miriam Waddington and Adele Wiseman.

She is perhaps best known for Raisins and Almonds (1972) and The Tree of Life (1988), two autobiographical works in which she asks "Who am I?" and emphatically concludes: "Woman and Jew, I am also my parents' child." The interest of these volumes thus lies in their combination of a vivid portrayal of family dynamics with a pointed representation of the social conditions that affect the life of a Jew and a woman at a particular historical juncture.

Maynard's recollections of her gentle artist-turned-shopkeeper father in Raisins and Almonds are presented