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During a very varied career, Bill Mitchell travelled widely and was everything f.
He studied at the University of Manitoba and lived in Saskatchewan, Ontario, and Alberta, until he and his wife, Merna, subsequently moved to Calgary, where he would remain for the rest of his life.
Mitchell was born in Weyburn, Saskatchewan, in 1914.
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This Edition is a collector\'s piece, a beautiful book that is also a joy to read, again and again.
The 8 full-colour paintings he produced, like the 32 black-and-white sketches that adorn the first page of every chapter, all come specifically from the text, and are illustrations in the very best sense.
Michell\'s prose with the inspired illustrations of one of Canada\'s finest and most popular artists, the late William Kurelek.
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No ordinary simple novel, it is the ageless story of childhood told with tenderness and humour and without sentimentality, and the picture of a small town anywhere, drawn with realism and understanding.
As readers enter the world of four-year-old Brian O\'Connal and his family and friends, they find characters that radiate life so convincingly that the book has a life of its own.
The reasons for the book\'s classic status are not hard to find.
Since its publication in 1947, Who Has Seen the Wind has established itself in the hearts and minds of millions as a Canadian classic.
Mitchell\'s text with the art of William Kurelek, has established itself as a classic.
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The man they mourned - and everyone in the Canadian book world whose life he had touched was personally saddened - was known above all as the author of Who Has Seen the Wind.
Our loss was the lead item on the national news, many newspaper obituaries ran for a full page, and as an extraordinary mark of respect, flags outside government offices across the land flew at half-mast.
Mitchell died in February of 1998, millions mourned his passing.
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