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Earle Birney was born in 1904 in Calgary. His father was an itinerant prospector, paperhanger and farmer. The Birney family lived on a bush farm the first six years of Earle's life and then spent the next eight in Banff.

After that, his father bought a farm in British Columbia. After graduating high school, Birney worked in a bank for two years, and then enrolled at UBC in engineering. He switched to English and was dismayed to find no classes that studied Canadian literature.

Birney completed his at the University of Toronto in 1927, and never finished a from the University of California.

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When the Depression hit he taught summer school at and the University of Utah. When he restarted his doctoral studies in 1932, he became deeply involved with Marxist politics, and joined a group that followed Trotsky. broke out and Birney worked in Europe in the personnel selection for the Army.

When he returned, after spending some time at the , Birney took a position at in 1946. He