Writers of books, plays, poetry, comics, academic works, etc.

Margaret Atwood - novelist (Alias Grace, Handmaid's Tale)
Algernon Blackwood - short story writer, instrumental in founding the horror genre
Morley Callaghan - short story writer, novelist
Willa Cather - author (My Antonia, Death Comes for the Archbishop)
John Robert Colombo - Canada's most prolific author
Robertson Davies - novelist (Deptford Trilogy)
Cory Doctorow, blogger & co-editor of Boing Boing, sci-fi author
Umberto Eco - novelist & academic (The Name of the Rose)
William Faulkner - novelist (The Sound and the Fury)
Timothy Findley - novelist (The Wars, Headhunter, The Telling of Lies)
Ian Fleming - UNCONFIRMED
William Gibson - novelist (Neuromancer, coined term cyberspace)
Malcolm Gladwell - non-fiction writer (Blink)
Arthur Hailey - novelist (Hotel, Airport)
Ernest Hemingway - novelist
John Irving - novelist (Cider House Rules, A Prayer for Owen Meany
Anna Brownell Jameson - non-fiction author
Jane Jacobs - urban planning writer
Naomi Klein - author (No Logo)
Stephen Leacock - short story writer
Dennis Lee - children's writer, poet (Alligator Pie)
Ann-Marie MacDonald - novelist, playwright (Fall on Your Knees)
Marshall McLuhan - academic ("The medium is the message.")
Lucy Maud Montgomery - novelist (Anne of Green Gables)
Farley Mowat - author (Never Cry Wolf)
bpnichol - poet
Michael Ondaatje - novelist (The English Patient)
Mazo de la Roche - novelist (Jalna series)
Joe Shuster - comic book artist, co-creator of Superman
Don Tapscott, author of Wikinomics
Goldwin Smith - journalist
Ben Wicks - cartoonist