Educated at the Hamburg Gymnasium and Bonn University, Grove became a translator of literature in Stefan George's literary group. In 1902, he published his first book of Poems, Wanderungen, and a play, Helena und Damon. He was arrested and imprisoned for fraud in 1903. Thereafter, he moved to Switzerland, France, Berlin and finally, in 1909, to North America where he settled for a couple of years in Kentucky. He left his wife in 1911 and went to Canada. After some years of teaching, he turned to writing as a full-time career in 1922 with the publication of his first English novel, Over Prairie Trails. The novel was a success and Grove went on to become one of Canada's most prolific authors. His other works include Turn of the Year (1923), Settlers of the Marsh (1925), A Search for America (1927), Our Daily Bread (1928), It Needs to be Said (1929), The Yoke of Life (1930), Fruits of the Earth (1933), The Master of the Mill (1944) and his autobiography In Search of Myself (1946). |
