Ethel Mary (E. M.) Granger Bennett (died April 19, 1988)[1] was a Canadian writer, best known for her Ryerson Fiction Award-winning novel Short of the Glory.
[2] Born in England as Ethel Mary Granger, she was raised in Collingwood, Ontario.
[3] After completing high school, she spent several years teaching in a small two-room elementary school near Collingwood, and writing for the local newspaper, to save money to attend the University of Toronto.
[3] After World War I, she married academic Harold Bennett, who would later go on to become president of Victoria College[2] and Laurentian University.
[1] She published three historical fiction novels: Land for Their Inheritance (1955), A Straw in the Wind (1958) and Short of the Glory (1960).