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Grove Frederick Philip
(1872—1948)

Frederick Philip Grove was a German-Canadian author. He was born on February 14, 1879 in Radomno, East Prussia, but was brought up in Hamburg where he graduated with the "Abitur" from the famous Gymnasium Johanneum in 1898. After studying Classical Languages & Archaeology in Bonn, he became a prolific translator of World Literature & a minor literary figure in Stefan George's group around 1900. He was imprisoned for fraud in 1903-04, lived in Wollerau, Switzerland, Paris-Plage, France, & Berlin, from where he transferred to North America on the White Star Liner Megantic in late July 1909. His wife Else joined him a year later in Pittsburgh, and in her papers at the University of Maryland, College Park, it is attested that the couple farmed near Sparta, Kentucky, until 1911, when Greve left her permanently. She modeled in nearby Cincinnati, & later became well-known in New York dada circles as Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven. Grove arrived in Manitoba, Canada, in 1912. He first taught in rural areas, but devoted himself entirely to writing after he settled in Rapid City, Manitoba, in 1922. In 1927, Grove and his wife Catherine lost their only child Phyllis May shortly before her twelfth birthday. In 1928-29, Grove went on three coast-to-coast lecture tours, and then the couple moved to Ontario in the fall of 1929. There, his son Arthur Leonard Grove was born on October 14, 1930. Grove briefly became an editor with Graphic Publishers, before moving to Simcoe, Ontario, where he continued to write. He suffered a second, crippling stroke in 1946, and died on August 19, 1948.

Canada, 1979, «Fruits of the Earth»