Leon Rooke

Novelist, Author

1934 –

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Who is Leon Rooke?

Leon Rooke, CM is a Canadian novelist. He was born in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina in the United States. Educated at the University of North Carolina, he moved to Canada in 1969. He now lives in Toronto, Ontario.

Rooke helped to found the Eden Mills Writers' Festival in 1989. In 2002, Rooke championed The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence in that year's edition of Canada Reads. Rooke's work also appears in Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts. In 2007, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada.

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Born
Sep 11, 1934
Roanoke Rapids
Nationality
  • Canada
Profession
Education
  • Mars Hill University

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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