Merilyn Simonds — об авторе

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Merilyn Simonds was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, spent her childhood in Brazil and came of age in a small town in southwestern Ontario. She began as a freelance journalist, publishing nine nonfiction books and scores of magazine articles on subjects ranging from the environment to soap–making, from art and architecture to war.

With the release of The Convict Lover in 1996, she became nationally known as a literary writer, exploring the zone where fact and fiction meet. Now considered a classic in Canadian creative nonfiction, The Convict Lover was nominated for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Nonfiction and was chosen as one of the top ten nonfiction books of 1996 by the Globe and…

Nonfiction:
The Art of Soapmaking (Camden House Publishing, 1979)
Canoecraft (Camden House Publishing, 1983)
Sunwings (Camden House Publishing, 1985)
Home Playgrounds (Camden House Publishing, 1987)
A Chronicle of Our House (Camden House Publishing, 1988)
The Valour and the Horror (Harper Collins, 1991)
The Harrowsmith Salad Garden (Camden House, 1992)
Fit to Drink (Groundwood Books, 1995)
The Convict Lover (Macfarlane, Walter and Ross, 1996)
Breakfast at the Exit Café (Greystone Books, 2010)

Fiction:
The Lion in the Room Next Door (McClelland and Stewart, 1999)
The Holding (McClelland and Stewart, 2004)

As Anthologist:
Gardens: A Literary Companion (Greystone Books, 2008)
Night: A Literary…