John Daniel Robins (September 8, 1884 - December 15, 1952) was a Canadian academic and humorist.
[1] A longtime professor of German and English literature at the University of Toronto's Victoria University, he was most noted for his book The Incomplete Anglers, which was co-winner with E. K. Brown's On Canadian Poetry of the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction at the 1943 Governor General's Awards.
He returned to Toronto where he taught German at Victoria College.
He returned to teaching at Victoria College eventually becoming a full professor in 1941.
In addition to The Incomplete Anglers, his other publications included the anthologies A Pocketful of Canada (1946)[3] and A Book of Canadian Humor (1951),[4] the novel Cottage Cheese (1951)[3] and the posthumous short fiction collection Logging with Paul Bunyan (1957).