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Canadian writer and editor (born 1943)
Linda Spalding (née Dickinson ; June 25, 1943) is a Canadian writer and editor. Born in Topeka, Kansas , the daughter of Jacob Alan Dickinson and Edith Senner, she lived in Mexico and Hawaii before moving to Toronto , Ontario in 1982.[ 1]
She has two daughters, Esta and Kristin Spalding, from her first marriage to photographer Philip Spalding. Spalding later married Canadian novelist Michael Ondaatje ; Linda, Esta and Michael are also on the editorial board of the national literary magazine, Brick [ 2]
Spalding's work has been honoured numerous times; her non-fiction work, The Follow , was shortlisted for the
Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize. She has since received the Harbourfront Festival Prize for her contribution to the Canadian literary community
[ 3] and, in 2012, the Governor-General's Literary Award for her novel,
The Purchase .
[ 4] Spalding has worked as a professor of English and writing at the
Humber College's School for Writers.
[ 1] Prior to this, she has worked as a manager for Hawaii Public Television and as the director of a child care services agency in Kailua, Hawaii.
Bibliography
Daughters of Captain Cook (1987)The Paper Wife (1994)The Follow / A Dark Place in the Jungle: Following Leakey's Last Angel into Borneo (1999)Riska (1999)The Brick Reader (1999) (edited with Michael Ondaatje )Lost Classics (2000, Knopf Canada; , Esta Spalding and Michael Ondaatje)Mere (2001, HarperFlamingo Canada; Who Named The Knife (2005)The Purchase (2012)A Reckoning (2017)
References
1930s 1940s 1950s
Germaine Guèvremont , The Outlander Morley Callaghan , The Loved and the Lost (1951)David Walker , The Pillar (1952)David Walker , Digby (1953)Igor Gouzenko , The Fall of a Titan (1954)Lionel Shapiro , The Sixth of June (1955)Adele Wiseman , The Sacrifice (1956)Gabrielle Roy , Street of Riches Colin McDougall , Execution Hugh MacLennan , The Watch That Ends the Night 1960s 1970s
Dave Godfrey , The New Ancestors (1970)Mordecai Richler , St. Urbain's Horseman Robertson Davies , The Manticore Rudy Wiebe , The Temptations of Big Bear (1973)Margaret Laurence , The Diviners Brian Moore , The Great Victorian Collection Marian Engel , Bear Timothy Findley , The Wars Alice Munro , Who Do You Think You Are? Jack Hodgins , The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne (1979) 1980s
George Bowering , Burning Water (1980)Mavis Gallant , Home Truths: Selected Canadian Stories (1981)Guy Vanderhaeghe , Man Descending Leon Rooke , Shakespeare's Dog Josef Škvorecký , The Engineer of Human Souls (1984)Margaret Atwood , The Handmaid's Tale Alice Munro , The Progress of Love M. T. Kelly , A Dream Like Mine (1987)David Adams Richards , Nights Below Station Street Paul Quarrington , Whale Music 1990s
Nino Ricci , Lives of the Saints Rohinton Mistry , Such a Long Journey Michael Ondaatje , The English Patient Carol Shields , The Stone Diaries Rudy Wiebe , A Discovery of Strangers (1994)Greg Hollingshead , The Roaring Girl (1995)Guy Vanderhaeghe , The Englishman's Boy Jane Urquhart , The Underpainter Diane Schoemperlen , Forms of Devotion (1998)Matt Cohen , Elizabeth and After 2000s
Michael Ondaatje , Anil's Ghost Richard B. Wright , Clara Callan Gloria Sawai , A Song for Nettie Johnson (2002)Douglas Glover , Elle (2003)Miriam Toews , A Complicated Kindness David Gilmour , A Perfect Night to Go to China Peter Behrens , The Law of Dreams Michael Ondaatje , Divisadero Nino Ricci , The Origin of Species (2008)Kate Pullinger , The Mistress of Nothing (2009) 2010s
Dianne Warren , Cool Water (2010)Patrick deWitt , The Sisters Brothers Linda Spalding , The Purchase (2012)Eleanor Catton , The Luminaries Thomas King , The Back of the Turtle Guy Vanderhaeghe , Daddy Lenin and Other Stories (2015)Madeleine Thien , Do Not Say We Have Nothing Joel Thomas Hynes , We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night Sarah Henstra , The Red Word Joan Thomas , Five Wives 2020s
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