Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Hood, Robert Allison
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
- Hood, Robert; Hood, R.A.
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1880-1958
History
Robert Allison Hood was born in Scotland and spent his youth in California, where he completed his education at the University of California at Berkeley. In 1906 he came to Vancouver and began his career in finance and real estate. In addition to writing poems, articles, and plays, Hood published several books, including The Chivalry of Keith Leicester: A romance of British Columbia (1918), The Quest of Alistair (1921), The Case of Kinnear (1942), and Ballads of the Pacific Northwest (1946). He was a member of the Canadian Authors' Association from its inception in 1921, and chairman of the Vancouver branch for a period.