Joyce Carman Barkhouse, was a children's writer, of which nationality, best known for writing historical fiction, and is the aunt of Margaret Atwood, a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, inventor, and environmental activist?
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Joyce Barkhouse Joyce Carman Barkhouse {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (May 3, 1913 – February 2, 2012) was a Canadian children's writer best known for writing historical fiction. She is the aunt of Margaret Atwood, with whom she co-wrote the children's book "Anna's Pet". Barkhouse achieved her greatest recognition for her novel "Pit Pony."
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Margaret Atwood Margaret Eleanor Atwood, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, inventor, and environmental activist. She is a winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and Prince of Asturias Award for Literature, has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, winning once, and has been a finalist for the Governor General's Award several times, winning twice. In 2001, she was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame. She is also a founder of the Writers' Trust of Canada, a non-profit literary organization that seeks to encourage Canada's writing community. Among innumerable contributions to Canadian literature, she was a founding trustee of the Griffin Poetry Prize.
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Joan Walker Joan Walker, née Sutter, was a Canadian writer. She won two noted Canadian literary awards in the 1950s, the Stephen Leacock Award in 1954 for "Pardon My Parka" and the Ryerson Fiction Award in 1957 for "Repent at Leisure". "Pardon My Parka" was a humorous memoir of her own experiences adapting to Canadian culture after moving to Canada as a war bride, while "Repent at Leisure" was a novel about a woman trapped in a troubled marriage.
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Meredith Quartermain Meredith Quartermain, née Yearsley (born October 1, 1950) is a Canadian poet, novelist and story writer who lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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Janet Campbell Hale Janet Campbell Hale (born January 11, 1946, Riverside, California) is a Native American writer. Her father was a full-blood Coeur d'Alene, and her mother was of Kootenay, Cree and Irish descent
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Douglas Smith Huyghue Douglas Smith Huyghue (1816-1891) was a Canadian and Australian poet, fiction writer, essayist, and artist.
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Judith Wright Judith Arundell Wright (31 May 191525 June 2000) was an Australian poet, environmentalist and campaigner for Aboriginal land rights.
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Harold Standish Harold Edwin Standish (24 September 1919 – 15 April 1972) was a Canadian poet and novelist, best known for his 1949 novel "The Golden Time" and his long poem "The Lake of Souls" (1957). A significant Canadian modernist along with the likes of Earle Birney, Douglas LePan, and Sheila Watson, Standish was known for his experiments with literary form and skeptical views of Canadian nationalism at a time, during the 1950s and 60s, when many Canadians sought to establish a distinctive literary tradition for Canada. Largely forgotten in recent years, his work remains significant for its vivid evocations of working class life in rural Southern Ontario.
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Selwyn Egerton Sangster Selwyn Egerton Sangster, known as Canuck, was a Canadian outdoorsman and writer. He lived 1883 to 1966. He was a member of the Canadian North West Mounted Police, and for years attached to the Canadian Indian Service. He founded a hunting and fishing outfitting organisation in the Height of Land region of North Canada.
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Emily Hunter Emily Hunter (born May 20, 1984) is a Canadian activist, author and filmmaker. She is the daughter of the late Robert Hunter, first president of Greenpeace and Bobbi Hunter, co-founder of Greenpeace. She has been a campaigner for nearly a decade on numerous environmental causes, from fighting whaling to climate change. She is known in Canada as a writer for "THIS" magazine and as environmental correspondent for MTV News.
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Mary Susanne Edgar Mary Susannah Edgar was a Canadian author born in Sundridge, Ontario on May 23, 1889. Her schooling took her from Sundridge to Barrie High School and Havergal College, Toronto. She is the author of several books, one-act plays and hymns, the most famous of them being "God Who Touchest Earth with Beauty", which has been translated into several languages and placed in hymnals around the world.
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Matilda Ridout Edgar Matilda Ridout Edgar (29 September 1844 – 29 September 1910) was a Canadian historian and feminist.
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Jane Urquhart Jane Urquhart, Order of Canada OC (born June 21, 1949) is a Canadian novelist and poet born in Little Long Lac, Ontario. She is the internationally acclaimed author of seven award-winning novels, three books of poetry and numerous short stories. As a novelist, Urquhart is well known for her evocative style which blends history with the present day. Her first novel, "The Whirlpool" (published 1986), gained her international recognition when she became the first Canadian to win France's prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger (Best Foreign Book Award). Her subsequent novels were even more successful. "Away", published in 1993, won the Trillium Award and was a national bestseller. In 1997, her fourth novel, "The Underpainter", won the Governor General's Literary Award.
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Margaret Aitken Margaret Aitken (July 3, 1908 – November 19, 1980) was a Canadian author, columnist, journalist, and politician.
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Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. Born in the Allegheny West neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and raised in Oakland, California, Stein moved to Paris in 1903, and made France her home for the remainder of her life. She hosted a Paris salon, where the leading figures of modernism in literature and art, such as Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, Ezra Pound, and Henri Matisse, would meet.
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Wilderness Tips Wilderness Tips is a collection of short stories by Margaret Atwood, published in 1991 by McClelland and Stewart. It was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award. Certain stories were previously published in "The New Yorker", "Saturday Night", "Playboy", "Harper's" and "Vogue".
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Emily Carr Emily Carr (December 13, 1871 – March 2, 1945) was a Canadian artist and writer inspired by the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast.One of the first painters in Canada to adopt a Modernist and Post-Impressionist painting style, Carr did not receive widespread recognition for her work until late in her life. As she matured, the subject matter of her painting shifted from aboriginal themes to landscapes—forest scenes in particular. As a writer, Carr was one of the earliest chroniclers of life in British Columbia. "The Canadian Encyclopedia" describes her as a "Canadian icon".
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Thomas Head Raddall Thomas Head Raddall, OC, FRSC (13 November 1903 – 1 April 1994) was a Canadian writer of history and historical fiction.
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Claire Mowat Claire Angel (Wheeler) Mowat (born 5 February 1933) is a Canadian writer and environmentalist.
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The Incredible Journey The Incredible Journey (1961), by Scottish author Sheila Burnford, is a children's book first published by Hodder, which tells the story of three pets as they travel 300 mi through the Canadian wilderness searching for their beloved masters. It depicts the suffering and stress of an arduous journey, together with the unwavering loyalty and courage of the three animals. The story is set in the northwestern part of Ontario, Canada which has many lakes, rivers, and widely dispersed small farms and towns.
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Amelia Clotilda Jennings Amelia Clotilda Jennings (–1895) was a Canadian poet and novelist.
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Marie Le Franc Marie Le Franc (October 4, 1879 – December 29, 1964) was a French-born writer who found much of her inspiration in Canada.