Linda Spalding
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| Born | Linda Dickinson 25 June 1943 Topeka,Kansas,United States |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Notable works | A Dark Place in the Jungle |
| Spouse | Philip Spalding Michael Ondaatje |
| Children | 2 (includingEsta Spalding) |
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Linda Spalding(néeDickinson;June 25, 1943) is a Canadian writer and editor. Born inTopeka, Kansas,the daughter ofJacob Alan Dickinsonand Edith Senner, she lived in Mexico andHawaiibefore moving toToronto,Ontarioin 1982.[1]
She has two daughters,Estaand Kristin Spalding, from her first marriage to photographer Philip Spalding. Spalding later married Canadian novelistMichael 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 theTrillium Book Awardand theWriters' 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 theUniversity of Hawaii,York University,theUniversity of Guelph,Brown University(where she was writer-in-residence in 1991), theUniversity of TorontoandRyerson University.She has also taughtcreative writingatHumber College's School for Writers.[1]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
[edit]- 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 withMichael Ondaatje)
- Lost Classics(2000, Knopf Canada;ISBN0-676-97299-3) (edited withMichael Redhill,Esta Spalding and Michael Ondaatje)
- Mere(2001, HarperFlamingo Canada;ISBN0-00-225538-3) (with Esta Spalding)
- Who Named The Knife(2005)
- The Purchase(2012)
- A Reckoning(2017)
References
[edit]- ^ab"New York State Writers Institute - Michael Ondaatje and Linda Spalding".www.albany.edu.
- ^"Brick | A literary journal".
- ^"Linda Spalding - Penguin Random House".www.randomhouse.com.
- ^"Linda Spalding wins Governor-General's award"– via The Globe and Mail.
- 1943 births
- Living people
- Writers from Topeka, Kansas
- American expatriate writers in Canada
- Writers from Toronto
- Harbourfront Festival Prize winners
- Canadian women novelists
- Governor General's Award-winning fiction writers
- 20th-century Canadian novelists
- 21st-century Canadian novelists
- 20th-century Canadian women writers
- 21st-century Canadian women writers