Gallant, Mavis (1922-...), is a Canadian short-story writer and novelist. Her early stories were collected in The Other Paris (1956) and My Heart Is Broken (1964). They describe people wandering and lost in a world that lacks meaning. Gallant's first novel, Green Water, Green Sky (1959), describes a suffocating mother-daughter relationship. A Fairly Good Time (1970) concerns a young Canadian woman in France and criticizes certain patterns of French behavior and thought.