David Adams Richards

David Adams Richards

male, 59 years old
Mercy Among the Child, Member of the Order of New Brunswick, New Brunswick writer, Governor General's Award winning fiction writer, CanadianAuthorsAssociation, Nights Below Station Street…Canadian
David Adams Richards (born 17 October 1950) is a Canadian novelist, essayist, screenwriter and poet. Born in Newcastle, New Brunswick, Richards...
Tim Lilburn

Tim Lilburn

male
Governor General's Award winning poet, Kill-Site, Canadian poetry, Governor General's Award, University of Victoria faculty, University of Victoria…Canadian, Canadian poet, CanadianAuthorsAssociation, received the Canadian Authors Association Award
Tim Lilburn (born in Regina, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian poet. "Kill-Site" (2003) was awarded the Governor General's Award. He teaches at the...
Barry Dempster

Barry Dempster

male, 57 years old
poet, Barry Edward Dempster, Fables For Isolated Men, Governor General's Awards, CanadianAuthorsAssociation, Holland Landing…Canadian
Barry Edward Dempster (born 17 January 1952) is a Canadian poet and novelist. Dempster was born and raised in Scarborough, Ontario. Two of his...
Madeleine Thien

Madeleine Thien

female
Canadian women writer, from vancouver, Short story writer, University of British Columbia alumni, Chinese Canadian, Canadian…CanadianAuthorsAssociation
Madeleine Thien (born 1974) is a Canadian short story writer and novelist. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, she was educated at Simon Fraser...
Tom Wayman

Tom Wayman

male, 64 years old
Colorado State University, A. J. M. Smith Prize, Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, CanadianAuthorsAssociation, University of California, Irvine, hawkesbury…Canadian
Thomas Ethan Wayman (born 13 August 1945) is a Canadian poet and academic. Born in Hawkesbury, Ontario, Wayman has lived most of his life in...
John Murray Gibbon

John Murray Gibbon

male, deceased (1952)
historian, folk music, Scottish, Canadian, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, ceylon…canadian pacific railway, Anglo-Indian Canadian, CanadianAuthorsAssociation, French Canadian Folk Songs, Canadian Mosaic
John Murray Gibbon was a Scottish Canadian writer and cultural promoter. He was born in Ceylon and educated at Aberdeen, Oxford and Göttingen u...

James Audain

male, 106 years old
Canadian racehorse owners and breeder, Social Credit Party of Canada, racehorses, CanadianAuthorsAssociation, Bournemouth, England, Courage to Change The Things We Can…Candidate for the Canadian House of Commons, Canadian
James Audain (born 1903 in Bournemouth, England) was a soldier, author, and racehorse breeder/owner. Educated at Wellington College, Berkshire and...
Basil King

Basil King

male, deceased (1928)
bishop, Mystical, Canadian, christ church, Spirituality, From Charlottetown…CanadianAuthorsAssociation
William Benjamin Basil King was a Canadian-born clergyman who became a writer after retiring from the clergy due to loss of eyesight and thyroid...
Ann-Marie MacDonald

Ann-Marie MacDonald

female, 51 years old
Governor General's Award winning dramatist, Canadian women writer, novelist, Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award, Governor General's Awards, Governor General's Award for Literary Merit…Canadian Author's Association, Canadian
Ann-Marie MacDonald (born 1958) is a Canadian playwright, novelist, actor and broadcast journalist who lives in Toronto, Ontario. The daughter of a...
George Bowering

George Bowering

male
University of British Columbia, royal, simon fraser university, sfu, B.A., University of Western Ontario…Canadian Air Force, Canadian Authors' Association
George Bowering was born in Osoyoos, British Columbia. He attended Victoria College and then the University of British Columbia, where he obtained...