Short Story: Newfoundlanders Percy Janes (March 12, 1922 – February 19, 1999) was a Canadian writer and novelist, known primarily for his novel House of Hate.
While attending the Memorial University College and after his discharge from the navy he wrote poems, and by the late 1950s had written his first book, So Young and Beautiful.
While still attending high school, he briefly spent time in the Canadian Navy when he moved to Canada after graduating from Memorial University College.
He was enrolled at the Victoria College of University of Toronto, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1948, winning the Lincoln Hutton Scholarship in 1946.
The novel was a story of a Newfoundland family that was consumed by hate, living in angst and desperately searching for hope and love.