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Marian Engel: Life in Letters, edited by Christl Verduyn and Kathleen Garay, University of Toronto Press, 295 pages, $43Marian Engel (1933-1985) is perhaps best remembered now as the author the controversial woman-meets-sexual-wilderness novel Bear, and for the Marian Engel Award, given annually to a female Canadian fiction writer who is considered to be in mid-career. But for much of her too-short life, she was a lively and vivid part of the literary scene in Canada, especially in Toronto. This edition of her correspondence, edited by two Ontario scholars, has much domestic business, but is also a record of Engel's correspondence with a who's who of CanLit: Hugh MacLennan, Robertson Davies, the Margarets Atwood and Laurence, Alice Munro, Dennis Lee, Matt Cohen. Indispensable for scholars and of considerable interest to students of Canadian literary history.