![]() ![]() ![]() Wayne, Indiana, before he moved to the University of Windsor in 1969, where he taught for several decades until his recent retirement. He subsequently taught for three years at Indiana University-Purdue University in Ft. Eventually, after teaching in the Maritimes, he finished academic degrees at Saint Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia and the University of New Brunswick before he went to the University of Notre Dame for his doctorate in English literature. During part of his youth, MacLeod lived on a farm, but he also worked as a logger and miner. ![]() The Times Literary Supplement described the novel as "a lesson in the art of storytelling," and the New York Times called MacLeod "a great writer." He delivered the Keynote Address at the Association of Writing Programs convention in Vancouver on March 31 of this year.īorn in 1936, Alistair MacLeod was raised on Cape Breton Island at the north end of Nova Scotia in the Canadian Maritimes, and most of his fiction is set on the island. No Great Mischief received Canada's Trillium Book Award as well as Ireland's prestigious IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. ![]() A number of years ago, Michael Ondaatje claimed that Alistair MacLeod was "one of the great undiscovered writers of our time." But with the publication of MacLeod's collected stories, Island (Norton, 2000), and his novel, No Great Mischief (Norton, 1999), he's been universally recognized as one of our best living writers of fiction. ![]()
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