The best teacher-student relationships are symbiotic. When students prod at an unexplored subject, a good instructor wonders why. They look deeper. They question why that topic pulled at the students to begin with. What stone is still unturned? While teaching the books of Timothy Findley, Sherrill Grace of University of British Columbia found her students resonating with the acclaimed Canadian author and playwright. They wanted to know the man behind works like The Wars, Famous Last Words, and Headhunter. Simply put, “other writers didn’t hit them the way this one did.” In the first episode of this four-part series, Sherrill explains how her students inspired her to look into Findley’s life, and the breadth of archival material—manuscripts, letters, journals—she happily dove into to write his biography, Tiff: A Life of Timothy Findley. Sherrill also picks apart what Findley means to her, and why his work continues to reach current generations even after his passing. Sponsored by Wilfrid Laurier University Press