On July 18, 1926 Margaret Lawrence was born. 

Beloved Canadian writer, founder of the non-profit Writers’ Trust of Canada and target of troglodytes who wanted her words banned.

Margaret Laurence, 1926-1987
Part of the Canadian Authors series
Issued by Canada Post in 1996
Designer: Alain Leduc

One of the “pivotal and foundational figures in women’s literature in Canada.”
Margaret Laurence | The Canadian Encyclopedia

Governor General’s Literary Award for fiction – A Jest of God (1966) and The Diviners (1974)
One of the founders of the Writers’ Union of Canada and the Writers’ Trust of Canada.
Chancellor of Trent University
Companion of the Order of Canada (1972)
Person of National Historic Significance (2018)
Writer of poetry, children’s stories and short stories as well as full length novels. 
Reporter for the Winnipeg Citizen
Translated Somali folk tales and poetry  

Irritate troglodytes, read a targeted book today. 

The toll on Laurence herself was heavy. She died just over a year following the second attempt to ban her book. Writer Timothy Findley observed: “no other writer in Canadian history suffered more at the hands of these professional naysayers, book-banners and censors than Laurence.” She had a strong Christian faith and was deeply wounded by the suggestion that she and her novels lacked a strong moral core. She was never able to finish her novel of a small town teacher’s battle with fundamentalist Christians. Instead her epithet, perhaps fittingly so, is her last novel, The Diviners. The Censorship of Margaret Laurence’s The Diviners, 1976-1985 | Digital Collections @ Mac (mcmaster.ca)