His Pathway to becoming an author

 

       Mordecai Richler’s professional life started at a Jewish parochial school because he was strongly motivated by his parents that wanted him to pursue a religious career as a rabbi. He then went to Baron Byng high school where he graduated (without a distinction). He then continued his studies and went to Sir George Williams University (now known as Concordia University) in Montreal, in 1950 but he gave up in 1951. Abandoning his uninspired studies was the breaking point for Richler’s career because that’s when he started to follow his career as a writer and left Montreal.Then, in 1951, he moved to Paris, where he was guided and motivated by Existentialist authors. In 1952, Richler returned to Canada and then published his first book, The Acrobats, in 1954.

Links: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mordecai-Richler 

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/mordecai-richler

https://biography.yourdictionary.com/mordecai-richler