Curtis Parkinson
Curtis Parkinson grew up in Kingston, Ontario. He graduated from Queen's University and worked as a chemical engineer for many years. Then he moved to the Caribbean to live on a sailboat and write. As he says, "Many rejections later, the cat fell ... [... more]
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Raymond Knister
The Ontario farmland described with arresting clarity in White Narcissus is, despite its beauty and abundance, "a place of choked vistas" where bitterness and rivalry have taken root. Against this backdrop Raymond Knister portrays the triumph [... more]
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Richard Dickinson
is a research associate of the Royal Ontario Museum and the author of Wildflowers of Edmonton & Central Alberta and Wildflowers of Calgary & Southern Alberta. The latest in the ROM's acclaimed series of beautiful and authoritative field ... [... more]
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Tim Dickinson
The latest in the ROM's acclaimed series of beautiful and authoritative field guides Guaranteed to appeal to everyone from the casual Sunday stroller to the most dedicated amateur botanist, The ROM Field Guide to Wildflowers of Ontario is ... [... more]
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Andrew Pyper
Andrew Pyper was born and raised in Stratford, Ontario. He received an undergraduate and master's degree in English literature from McGill University in Montreal, as well as a law degree from the University of Toronto. His fiction, essays, and ... [... more]
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Jeanne Beker
Born in Toronto, Ontario, Jeanne Beker began acting at the age of sixteen. In the early '70s, she studied acting at the Herbert Berghoff Studio in New York, mime with Étienne Decroux in Paris, and theater at Toronto's York University. In 1975, ... [... more]
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Molly Wolf
Molly Wolf, writer, editor, spinner, and frequent sock knitter, is the author of White China: Finding the Divine in the Everyday. She lives in Kingston, Ontario. They are the editors of KnitLit and KnitLit (too). Sweaters and Their Stories...and ... [... more]
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Ramsay Cook
Set in southern Ontario in the late nineteenth century, at a time when the machine age was coming into its own, Perpetual Motion chronicles the fortunes of settler Robert Fraser, a man obsessed with power and control. Driven by the idea of ... [... more]
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Sara Jeannette Duncan
Sara Jeannette Duncan's classic portrait of a turn-of-the-century Ontario town, The Imperialist captures the spirit of an emergent nation through the example of two young dreamers. Impassioned by "the Imperialist idea," Lorne Murchison rests [... more]
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Ross Macdonald
Ross Macdonald's real name was Kenneth Millar. Born near San Francisco in 1915 and raised in Ontario, Millar returned to the U.S. as a young man and JERRY SIEGEL AND Joe Shuster, two misfit teens in Depression-era Cleveland, were more like Clark ... [... more]
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Denis Smith
is a writer and political scientist, recently retired from the University of Western Ontario. He has published four highly praised books, including works on the FLQ crisis of 1970 and Canadian diplomacy during the Cold War. His most recent book, ... [... more]
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Leslie Scrivener
Journalism degree from the University of Western Ontario and Terry Fox, the one-legged runner from Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, made an indelible impression upon people across Canada and around the world. An outstanding athlete with a ... [... more]
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