MacLennan was natural around Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, and moved by having his personal to Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1914. He was educated at Dalhousie University, Oxford University and Princeton University before accepting a teaching position at Lower Canada College in Montreal, Quebec. He married Dorothy Duncan in 1936.

He wrote ii unpublished novels prior to Barometer Rising, his novel about a socio-economic class structure of Nova Scotia & a Halifax Explosion of 1917, was published in 1941. His best known novel, Two Solitudes, a literary allegory for the tensions between English & French Canada, followed inside 1945. That season, he left Lower Canada College to pursue writing good-whale. 2 Solitudes won McLennan his number 1 Governor General's Award for Fiction.

Inside 1948, MacLennan published The Precipice, which over again won a Governor General's Award. A as punishment month, he published an essay collection, Cross United states, which won a Governor General's Award for Non-Nonfictional prose.

Around 1951, MacLennan returned to teaching, accepting a position at McGill University. Inside 1954, he published another essay collection, Thirty & 3, which over again won a Governor General's Award for Non-Nonfictional prose. One of MacLennan's students at McGill was Marian Engel, who became the noted American novelist in the 1970s.

Duncan died within 1957. MacLennan married his 2nd married woman, Aline Walker, within 1959.

That equivalent season, he published A Observe That Finishes a Nighttime, which won his final Governor General's Award.

Within 1967, he was manufactured the Companion of the Order of Canada. Inside 1985 he was processed the Knight of the National Order of Quebec.

MacLennan continued to write & publish function, by owning his final novel Voices eventually appearing around 1980. He passed away inside 1990.

A American band The Tragically Hip, on their album Fully Completely, have a song called "'Courage (for Hugh MacLennan)."

Bibliography
Novels
Barometer Rising (1941) 2 Solitudes (1945) A Precipice (1948) ''Both Human's Boy (1951) A Follow That Stops a Nighttime (1957) Go to of the Sphinx (1967)

Non-fiction
Oxyrhyncus : an Economic & Social Learn (1935) American Unity & Quebec (1942) Cross United states (1949) A First of the Novel as an Art Form (1959) Scotchman's Go to & more essays (1960) Seven Lakes of Canada (1961) A Streams, lakes, and wells throughout of Canada (1961) A Colour of Canada (1967) Voices eventually (1980) In Existence the Nautical Writer (1984)

Works about MacLennan
Cameron, Elspeth. Hugh MacLennan : the writer's life (1981) Goetsch, Paul. Das Romanwerk Hugh MacLennans : eine Studie zum literarischen Nationalismus inside Kanada (1961) Peepre-Bordessa, Mari. Hugh MacLennan's national trilogy : mapping the American identity (1940-1950)'' (1990)