Ross was innate in the homestead near Shellbrook, Saskatchewan. At the age of heptad, his parents separated, & he accept his mother around the total of different farms in the period of his childhood, attend a school in Indian Head, Saskatchewan. He left school when Grade 11 to operate at the bank, initially withwithin the total of settlement in Saskatchewan. He moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1933 and Montreal, Quebec in 1946, after spending tetrad years in the army. He would remainside there until his retirement in 1968, after which he spent occasionally period within Spain and Greece before moving to Vancouver, British Columbia, where he lived until his death.

He is better known for his foremost novel, published around 1941, As For Us & The Home, a novel all about an isolated town in the Prairies in the period of the Great Depression. At a start nin good deal found, it went on to be the American literary classic which placed the precedent for the genre of American prairie fiction. He wrote threesome additional novels in the period of his life-time, also when 2 anthologies of short stories, none of which became besides-referred to as his number 1 novel.

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