Charlotte Fielden
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Charlotte Fielden (born June 5, 1932) is a Canadian novelist, playwright, actress and therapist.
Born in Toronto, Ontario, Fielden studied mime with Marcel Marceau in the 1950s, and was featured in the Stratford Festival of Canada with actors such as William Shatner. She has written for stage, television, radio, and film, and her short stories, articles and poetry have been included in various anthologies, literary reviews and news publications.
An Age Without A Name, released in the fall of 2007, concludes the Weil Trilogy. Preceded by Crying As She Ran, and Messages Like Memories, it spans 100 years of a Toronto immigrant family from 1920 to 2020. A Fragrance of Thyme, her first poetry collection, will have a spring release in 2008.
Fielden's play in two acts, Saving Angel had a successful staged reading in Toronto (August 2006) and has gone on to London, England for three more with the Actors Centre. (October & November 2006). A Thin Place, a collection of short stories, was published in October 2006.
She is a founding member of both the Writers' Union of Canada and the Playwrights Guild of Canada.
She is also the mother of musician Jerry Fielden (AraPacis, Miranie Morissette Band), who is also her editor.
[edit] Bibliography
- Crying As She Ran - Macmillan of Canada, 1970
- One Crowded Hour - Playwrights' Co-op, 1976 (First Prize, the Women's National Playwriting Competition)
- Palatine Hill - CFM Books, 2004
- Messages Like Memories - CFM Books, 2005
- A Thin Place - CFM Books, 2006
- Saving Angel, a play - CFM Books, 2007
- An Age Without a Name - CFM Books, 2007
- Fragrance of Thyme - CFM Books, 2008
