Linda Spalding
Novelist, Author
1943 –
Who is Linda Spalding?
Linda Spalding is a Canadian writer and editor. Born in Topeka, Kansas, the daughter of Jacob Alan Dickinson and Edith Senner, she lived in Mexico and Hawaii before moving to Toronto, Ontario in 1982.
She has two daughters, Esta and Kristin Spalding, from her first marriage to photographer Philip Spalding. Linda Spalding is currently married to Canadian novelist Michael Ondaatje; Linda, Esta and Michael are also on the editorial board of the national literary magazine, Brick.
Spalding's work has been honoured numerous times; her non-fiction work, The Follow, was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award and the Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize. She has since received the Harbourfront Festival Prize for her contribution to the Canadian literary community and, in 2012, the Governor-General’s Literary Award for her novel, The Purchase.
Spalding has worked as a professor of English and writing at the University of Hawaii, York University, the University of Guelph, Brown University, the University of Toronto and Ryerson University. She has also taught creative writing at Humber College's School for Writers.
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- Born
- Jun 25, 1943
Topeka - Spouses
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Canada
- Profession
- Lived in
- Topeka
- Toronto
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on July 23, 2013
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