A Family Affair
A son and daughter-in-law produce an intimate portrait of an important writer January–February 2006
W.O. Mitchell’s fictions are usually rooted in family, charged with some form of parent-child dynamic. It is appropriate enough, then, that the first Mitchell biography should be co-written by his son and daughter-in-law and that they recreate the father within a pattern of domestic tensions in which the biographers themselves emerge as the latest generation in the family…