Linda Spalding
CanadianLiterary FictionHistorical FictionMemoirBiographyb. 1943
Linda Spalding is a Canadian writer and editor born in Topeka, Kansas, who lived in Mexico and Hawaii before moving to Toronto, Ontario, in 1982. She is known for her fiction and non-fiction works, including 'The Purchase', which won the Governor General's Literary Award. She has served on the editorial board of the literary magazine Brick and has taught creative writing at various institutions.
Awards
["Governor-General's Literary Award", 'Harbourfront Festival Prize', "Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize"]
Notable Works
['The Purchase', 'The Follow', 'Who Named the Knife', 'Daughters of Captain Cook', 'The Paper Wife']
