Claude Bissell

Claude Thomas Bissell CC FRSC (February 10, 1916 – June 21, 2000) was a Canadian author and educator.

He earned his PhD in English Literature from Cornell University where he won the Luana L. Messenger Prize for Graduate Research in 1940.

[1][2][3][4] He served in the Canadian Army during World War II.

The Claude T. Bissell Building at the University of Toronto, which houses the Faculty of Information, is named after him.

[6] Because of his education, he was an officer in World War II, attaining the rank of captain in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada and worked in the intelligence section.