Occupation: Canadian journalist, playwright, professor, critic, and novelist
Born: 28 August 1913 in Thamesville, Ontario, Canada
Died: 2 December 1995 in Orangeville, Ontario, Canada

William Robertson Davies, CC, O.Ont, FRSC, FRSL (born August 28, 1913, at Thamesville, Ontario, and died December 2, 1995 at Orangeville, Ontario) was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. He was one of Canada's best-known and most popular authors, and one of its most distinguished "men of letters", a term Davies is variously said to have gladly accepted for himself and to have detested.[1] Davies was the founding Master of Massey College, a graduate residential college associated with the University of Toronto.