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In actual fact, Marchbanks was a fictional character, a pseudonym used by Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor Robertson Davies during his tenure as editor of the newspaper.

Marchbanks is described as witty, cantankerous, and determinedly individualistic.

Three books of Marchbanks' writings have been published, supposedly with Davies as editor. The metafictional pretence of there being two separate individuals spills over into the footnotes, where disagreements between Marchbanks and Davies are evident.

The Marchbanks books include The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks (published in 1947), The Table Talk of Samuel MarchbanksThe Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks published in 1949, is the second of the archbanks Books by Canadian novelist and journalist Robertson Davies. The other two books in this series are The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks ( 1947) and Samuel Marchbanks' Almanack (published in 1949See also 1948 in literature, other events of 1949, 1950 in literature, list of years in literature. Events Death of a Salesman a play by Arthur Miller The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles is published. June 8 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell is publishe), and Samuel Marchbanks' AlmanackSamuel Marchbanks' Almanack published in 1967, is the third and last of the Marchbanks Books by Canadian novelist and journalist Robertson Davies. The other two books in this series are The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks ( 1947) and The Table Talk of Samuel M (published in 1967See also 1966 in literature, other events of 1967, 1968 in literature, list of years in literature. Events Influential science fiction anthology Dangerous Visions published. New Books The Arrangement Elia Kazan The Chosen Chaim Potok Christy Catherine Mar). In 1985See also 1984 in literature, other events of 1985, 1986 in literature, list of years in literature. Events New Books The Accidental Tourist Anne Tyler The Adult Children of Alcoholics Syndrome Wayne Kritsberg At the Going Down of the Sun Elizabeth Darrell an omnibus of the three previous Marchbanks books, The Papers of Samuel MarchbanksThe Papers of Samuel Marchbanks published in 1985 constitutes a collection of the writings of Samuel Marchbanks, a character created by Canadian novelist and journalist Robertson Davies when he was editor of the Peterborough Examiner newspaper in the smal, was published with new notes by the author, or more correctly, by the editor.