Author: De La Roche Mazo De La Roche

Mazo de la Roche (1879-1961) was a Canadian author of the popular Jalna novels which became bestsellers in her time. As a child she moved a lot around Canada with her parents who, due to financial and health problems, found it difficult to settle in one place. Because of that she was a lonely child and found salvation in reading and writing. Although she started to publish short stories in her twenties, it was only when her third novel, Jalna, won the Atlantic Monthly prestigious prize, in 1927, that her writing career truly took off. After this success she wrote sixteen more novels in the series, all of which were very successful.