Linda Dickinson (1943-06-25) 25 June 1943 (age 80) Topeka, Kansas, United States
Occupation
Novelist
Nationality
Canadian
Notable works
A Dark Place in the Jungle
Spouse
Philip Spalding Michael Ondaatje
Children
2 (including Esta Spalding)
Website
www.lindaspalding.com
Linda Spalding (née Dickinson; June 25, 1943) 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.[1]
She has two daughters, Esta and Kristin Spalding, from her first marriage to photographer Philip Spalding. Spalding later married Canadian novelist Michael Ondaatje; Linda, Esta and Michael are also on the editorial board of the national literary magazine, Brick.[2]
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[3] and, in 2012, the Governor-General's Literary Award for her novel, The Purchase.[4]
Spalding has worked as a professor of English and writing at the University of Hawaii, York University, the University of Guelph, Brown University (where she was writer-in-residence in 1991), the University of Toronto and Ryerson University. She has also taught creative writing at Humber College's School for Writers.[1] Prior to this, she has worked as a manager for Hawaii Public Television and as the director of a child care services agency in Kailua, Hawaii.
^ ab"New York State Writers Institute - Michael Ondaatje and Linda Spalding". www.albany.edu.
^"Brick | A literary journal".
^"Linda Spalding - Penguin Random House". www.randomhouse.com.
^"Linda Spalding wins Governor-General's award" – via The Globe and Mail.
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Nicholas Jose, Maxine Hong Kingston, Ruthanne Lum McCunn, Lisa See, LindaSpalding, Robert Sullivan, Gail Tsukiyama, Kathleen Tyau, and Jade Snow Wong...
Lisa Pasold's Any Bright Horse". The Puritan, Issue 21. "Vincent Lam, LindaSpalding among authors shortlisted for Governor General's Literary Awards". Ottawa...
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