C. G. D. Roberts inherited his literary instinct. His father was the
Rev. G. Goodrich Roberts, and he is a cousin of Bliss Carman, the poet,
while several of his ancestors were professors in English universities.
He was born in Canada in 1860. Graduating from the university of
Brunswick, in 1879, he afterward and for several years taught in
educational establishments in Canada, but in 1895 devoted himself
exclusively to literary work. In 1897 he became associate editor of the
Illustrated American, but is best known as a writer of nature stories,
several of which have passed through two or three editions.