Linda Spalding
| Linda Spalding | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Linda Dickinson 25 June 1943 Topeka, Kansas, United States |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Notable works | A Dark Place in the Jungle |
Linda Spalding (née Dickinson) (born 25 June 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. Linda Spalding is currently married to 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 Trillium Book Award and 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 University of Hawaii, York University, the University of Guelph, Brown University (where she was writer-in-residence in 1991), the University of Toronto and Ryerson University. She has also taught creative writing at Humber College's School for Writers.[5] 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; ISBN 0-676-97299-3) (edited with Michael Redhill, Esta Spalding and Michael Ondaatje)
- Mere - (2001, HarperFlamingo Canada; ISBN 0-00-225538-3) (with Esta Spalding)
- Who Named The Knife (2005)
- The Purchase (2012)
References
- ↑ http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/ondaatje.html
- ↑ http://www.brickmag.com/
- ↑ http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=29189
- ↑ http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/linda-spalding-wins-governor-generals-award/article5236277/
- ↑ http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/ondaatje.html
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