Sheila Watson (writer)
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Sheila Watson (born Sheila Doherty on October 24, 1909, at New Westminster, British Columbia, died on February 1, 1998 at Nanaimo, British Columbia) was a Canadian novelist, critic and teacher.
Watson studied at the University of British Columbia and later at the University of Toronto under Marshall McLuhan, before taking up teaching, first in the interior of British Columbia and then later at the University of Alberta.
She is best known for her modernist novel The Double Hook (1959), which was a seminal work in the development of contemporary Canadian literature.
Watson was awarded the Royal Society of Canada's Lorne Pierce Medal in 1984.
A biography, Always Someone to Kill the Doves: A Life of Sheila Watson by F.T. Flahiff was published in 2005.
