"Hugh John Blagdon Hood, OC (b in Toronto, Ontario 30 Apr 1928 \u2013 d in Montreal, Quebec 1 Aug 2000) was a Canadian novelist, short story writer, essayist and university professor.Hood wrote 32 books: 17 novels including the 12-volume New Age novel sequence (influenced by Marcel Proust and Anthony Powell), several volumes of short fiction, and 5 of nonfiction. He taught English literature at the Universit\u00E9 de Montr\u00E9al."@en . "Hood, Hugh"@en . "1928Z"^^ . "2000Z"^^ . "Canadian writer" .