The Canadian fictional landscape holds many wests. From the Alberta strongholds of Ralph Connor’s pulpit fiction through Frederick Philip Grove’s Manitoba, Howard O’Hagan’s mythic Yellowhead Pass, Sinclair Ross’s Saskatchewan depression, and W.O. Mitchell’s joyful Saskatchewan down to Ethel Wilson’s British Columbia city and country life and Sheila Watson’s interior British Columbia, there are more and different wests than can be imagined. Building upon these and other writers and forging their own identities, western writers have continued to create their own unique voices. Pre-eminent among them is Robert Kroetsch (1917–2011), a professor in both Canada and the United States, an essayist, novelist, and poet who contributed to a reimagining of the west and influenced many other writers.