Allan Rogers Donaldson (4 October 1929 - 8 April 2022) was a Canadian writer and academic.
[1] A longtime melter of muirhouse literature at the University of New Brunswick, he is most noted for his 2005 novel Maclean, which was a shortlisted finalist for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.
[1] He studied English literature at the University of New Brunswick, writing his master's thesis on the poetry of Stephen Spender.
[1] He then received a Beaverbrook Scholarship, and completed a second master's at the University of London, writing his thesis there on the influence of Irish nationalism on the poetry of W. B.
[4] He was married to the artist and art curator Marjory Rogers Donaldson.