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Stories about storytellers: publishing Alice Munro, Robertson Davies, Alistair MacLeod, Pierre Trudeau, and others
Par Anthony Jenkins, Douglas Gibson. 2011
An autobiography that reviews the author’s accomplishments working - and playing - alongside some of Canada’s greatest writers. Relates the…
projects he brainstormed for writer Barry Broadfoot, how he convinced eventual Nobel Prize contender Alice Munro to keep writing short stories, his early morning phone call from a former Prime Minister, and his recollection of yanking a manuscript right out of Alistair MacLeod’s own reluctant hands, which ultimately garnered MacLeod one of the world’s most prestigious prizes for fiction. Provides an inside view of Canadian publishing that is rarely revealed. Some strong language. 2011.Stephen Leacock (Extraordinary Canadians)
Par John Ralston Saul, Margaret MacMillan. 2009
Macmillan has great affection for Leacock's gentle wit and sharp-eyed insight. The renowned historian examines Leacock's life as a poor…
but ambitious student who rose to become an economist, celebrated academic, and, most importantly, the beloved humourist who taught Canadians to laugh at themselves. c2009.Sophia Tolstoy: a biography
Par Alexandra Popoff. 2010
As Leo Tolstoy's wife, Sophia Tolstoy experienced both glory and condemnation during their forty-eight-year marriage. Drawing on newly available archival…
material, including Sophia's unpublished memoir, Alexandra Popoff presents a dramatically different and accurate portrait of the woman and the marriage. Some descriptions of sex. c2010.Reporter in disguise: the intrepid Vic Steinberg
Par Christine Welldon. 2012
Who was Vic Stein? A man who enjoyed a pint of beer at the rugby match? A young woman who…
worked behind the counter at a local department store? A seamstress in a sweatshop? Yes - she could be any and all of these characters, depending on the story she was chasing for her popular column in the Toronto News. Over 100 years ago, Vic Stein was one of the New Women, a Bachelor Girl who pursued a career in investigative journalism - hardly the type of lifestyle for an upper-middle class young lady. But she had to be stealthy, secretive, and cunning if she wanted her scoop. There are many details we do not know about this secretive and feisty journalist - we don't even know her real name! - but one thing we know for sure: Vic Steinberg would be laughing if she knew that decades after her death, people are still wondering about her and trying to solve the puzzle that was her life. Grades 3-6. 2012.Pinboy: a memoir
Par George Bowering. 2012
As a teenager, Canadian poet George Bowering lived the life of an ordinary boy: he loved baseball, read Westerns, held…
a part-time job, and fantasized about girls and women. When he was fifteen, George found himself vying for the affections of his first love, the girl from the wrong side of the tracks, and one of his high school teachers. Set in the South Okanagan Valley in the fifties, this memoir captures the delirious chaos that takes place as a boy becomes a man. Includes sex. 2012.Peter Gzowski: a biography
Par Rae Bruce Fleming. 2010
Gzowski covered most of the last half of the century as a journalist and interviewer, beginning at the University of…
Toronto, through his years as the youngest-ever managing editor of Maclean's and his tremendous success on CBC's Morningside, and ending with his stint as a Globe and Mail columnist. He witnessed everything from the Quiet Revolution in Québec to the growth of economic nationalism in Canada's West. From the rise of state medicine to the decline of the patriarchy, Peter was there to comment, resist, and participate. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. 2010.Otherwise
Par Farley Mowat. 2008
From an innocent childhood, spent free of stricture and largely in the company of animals, Mowat was catapulted into wartime…
service, where the carnage of the Italian campaign shattered his faith in humanity forever. On his return, he accepted a stint on a scientific collecting expedition to the Barrengrounds, where in the bleak but beautiful landscape he found his purpose - first with the wolves and then with the Ihalmiut. Out of these experiences came his first battles with federal bureaucracy, and his first books. Some descriptions of sex, some strong language. 2008.Mordecai: the life & times
Par Charles Foran. 2010
Mordecai Richler won multiple awards for adult and children's fiction, and wrote Oscar-nominated screenplays. His influence was larger than life…
in Canada and abroad. Foran describes Mordecai's life as young bohemian, irreverent writer, passionate and controversial Canadian, loyal friend, romantic lover, and devoted husband and father. Some descriptions of sex, some strong language. Canada Reads 2012. Winner of the 2011 Governor General's Award for Non-Fiction. 2010.Mordecai Richler (Extraordinary Canadians)
Par M. G Vassanji. 2012
Both Richler and Vassanji are award-winning novelists who regarded themselves as outsiders in their respective societies - one a Jew…
in Quebec, the other an Indian in Tanzania who emigrated to Canada. Their experiences were vastly different, but their perspective as outsiders allows each a unique viewpoint. Vassanji explores the life and artistic quest of the prolific Montreal satirist who died in 2001. 2012.'Membering
Par Austin Clarke. 2015
The unforgettable memoir of Giller Prize-winning author and poet Austin Clarke, called “Canada’s first multicultural writer". Clarke shares his own…
experiences growing up in Barbados and moving to Toronto to attend university in 1955 before becoming a journalist. With vivid realism he describes Harlem of the '60s, meeting and interviewing Malcolm X and writers Chinua Achebe and LeRoi Jones. Clarke went on to become a pioneering instructor of Afro-American Literature at Yale University and inspired a new generation of Afro-American writers. 2015.L.M. Montgomery (Extraordinary Canadians)
Par Jane Urquhart. 2009
While her fictional characters inhabited a world where love and close community bonds overcame all, Montgomery's real life was marked…
by grief, loneliness, and mental illness. She nevertheless maintained a prolific output of fiction. Explores the life of a woman whose success broke the boundaries set for women of her time, but who could not escape the societal strictures of Victorian Canada or her own demons. c2009.Journey with no maps: a life of P.K. Page
Par Sandra Djwa. 2012
Tracing P.K. Page's life through two wars, world travels, the rise of modernist and Canadian cultures, and later Sufi study,…
this book details the people and events that inspired her work. Page's independent spirit propelled her from Canada to England, from work as a radio actress to a scriptwriter for the National Film Board, from an affair with poet F.R. Scott to an enduring marriage with diplomat Arthur Irwin. "A borderline being," as she called herself, she recognized the new choices offered to women by modern life but followed only those related to her quest for self-discovery. Winner of the 2013 Governor General’s Award for Non-fiction. 2012.From old Hollywood to New Brunswick: memories of a wonderful life
Par Charles Foster. 2013
Imagine receiving a mysterious invitation from Charlie Chaplin, having a heart-to-heart with Jack Kennedy, or being kissed by Greta Garbo.…
All of these and more are the sensational memories of UK-born, honorary Maritimer Charles Foster. After an unlikely childhood, his adventurous spirit brought him in 1943 to RAF pilot training school in Calgary. Through a series of incredible circumstances and fortunate friendships, Foster went on to become a Hollywood writer and publicist. Now writing from New Brunswick as a regular columnist for Senior’s Advocate, Foster shares the most tantalizing stories from an eventful life. 2013.Graham Greene: a life in letters
Par Graham Greene, Richard Greene. 2007
Editor presents a compilation of letters from noted twentieth-century British writer Graham Greene (1904-1991). The correspondence reveals Greene's religious, political,…
literary, and personal concerns and describes his travels, his sentiments about suffering in the world, and empathy for his family and friends. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2007.Finding myself in fashion
Par Jeanne Beker. 2011
Beker recalls some of the high and low points of the turbulent past decade: personally, she dealt with heartbreak (the…
end of her marriage) and rediscovered romance; professionally, she suffered setbacks that became learning experiences leading to new career paths. She travelled the world with FQ Magazine; witnessed epic events and conducted intimate interviews as a fashion reporter; launched her own clothes labels; wrote newspaper columns; and hosted or appeared on innumerable television shows. Through it all, both at home and at work, she stuck to a youthful resolution to live a life that was not just great, but extraordinary. c2011.Eastern passage
Par Farley Mowat. 2010
Picking up where his 2008 memoir "Otherwise" left off, Mowat traces his development as an author, with frequent digressions on…
subjects such as homebuilding, family, and wildlife. Covering the episodes that shaped his particular worldview - from post-war research in the North to a sailing trip to Nova Scotia - the author also takes direct aim at his critics. 2010.Causeway: a passage from innocence
Par Linden MacIntyre. 2006
Linden MacIntyre remembers the day construction started on the Canso Causeway, which would link his Cape Breton village with the…
mainland. With its grand promises of jobs and riches and progress, the building of the causeway also became a personal icon for MacIntyre, the road that would bring him closer to the father who was always away. His memoir is a coming-of-age story, a portrait of a vanishing way of life, and a reflection on fathers and sons. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2006.1606: William Shakespeare and the year of Lear
Par James Shapiro. 2015
1606 is an intimate portrait of one of Shakespeare's most inspired moments: the year of King Lear, Macbeth and Antony…
and Cleopatra. 1606, while a very good year for Shakespeare, was a fraught one for England. Plague returns. There is surprising resistance to the new king's desire to turn England and Scotland into a united Britain. And fear and uncertainty sweep the land and expose deep divisions in the aftermath of a failed terrorist attack that came to be known as the Gunpowder Plot. James Shapiro deftly demonstrates how these extraordinary plays responded to the tumultuous events of this year, events that in unexpected ways touched upon Shakespeare's own life. By immersing us in Shakespeare's England, 1606 profoundly changes and enriches our experience of his plays, works that continue to speak to us with such immediacy. 2015.1599: a year in the life of William Shakespeare
Par James Shapiro. 2006
How did Shakespeare go from being a talented poet and playwright to become one of the greatest writers who ever…
lived? In this one exhilarating year we follow what he reads and writes, what he saw and who he worked with as he invests in the new Globe theatre and creates four of his most famous plays - Henry V, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, and, most remarkably, Hamlet. Here is an intimate history of Shakespeare, following him through a single year that changed not only his fortunes but the course of literature as we know it. 2006.I've been meaning to tell you: a letter to my daughter
Par David John Chariandy. 2018
Canadian author David Chariandy writes a letter to his daughter to share with her the story of his life and…
to talk to her about the politics of race in her world. David is the son of Black and South Asian migrants from Trinidad, and he draws upon his personal and ancestral past, including the legacies of slavery, indenture, and immigration, as well as the experiences of growing up a visible minority within the land of one's birth. In sharing with his daughter his own story, he hopes to help cultivate within her a sense of identity and responsibility that balances the painful truths of the past and present with hopeful possibilities for the future. Bestseller. 2018.