Sign in / Join|English|Help
No picture
add a picture

Joan Barfoot

Author of Luck

MembersReviewsRatingFavorited   Events   
30713 (3.64)00

Books by Joan Barfoot

combine/separate works?

Members

Top members (works)

mamabear54 (10), shirleyonn (10), bhowell (7), kathrynnd (6), pdebolt (5), TessGiles (5), harlamow (5), oldblack (5), Clio12 (4), kellsmom (4), jezebel_uk (4), astner (4), herschelian (3), macphear (3) — more

Member favorites

Related tags

Events on LibraryThing Local

Add an event
No events listed. (add an event)

Common KnowledgeShare what you know.

view history Creative Commons License ?
You must log in to edit Common Knowledge data.
For more help see the Common Knowledge help page.
Canonical name
Barfoot, Joan
Legal name
Other names
Date of birth
1946-05-17
Date of death
Burial location
Gender
female
Nationality
Canada
Places of residence
Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada
London, Ontario, Canada
Education
University of Western Ontario (B.A. English 1969)
Occupations
journalist
editor
Relationships
Organizations
Writers' Union of Canada
PEN
Awards and honors
Books in Canada First Novel Award (1978, Abra)
Marian Engel Award (1992), Writers' Trust of Canada
London YM-YWCA Women of Distinction Award (1986)
Huron University College Medal of Distinction (2005)
Agents
Short biography
Joan Barfoot is an award-winning novelist whose work has been compared internationally with that of Anne Tyler, Carol Shields, Margaret Drabble and Margaret Atwood. Her novels include Luck in 2005, nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, as well as Abra, which won the Books in Canada first novels award, Dancing in the Dark, which became an award-winning Canadian entry in the Cannes and Toronto Film Festivals, Duet for Three, Family News, Plain Jane, Charlotte and Claudia Keeping in Touch, Some Things About Flying, and Getting Over Edgar. Her 2001 novel, Critical Injuries, was longlisted for the 2002 Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the 2001 Trillium Book Award. In 1992 she was given the Marian Engel Award. Also a journalist during much of her career, she lives in London, Ontario, Canada.
Disambiguation notice

Is this you?

If you're an author, consider becoming an official LibraryThing Author.

Links

Member ratings

Average: (3.64)
0.5
1 2
1.5 1
2 4
2.5 3
3 23
3.5 4
4 17
4.5 2
5 18

Related book awards

Related people/characters

Related places

Author Disambiguation

How many authors?

Joan Barfoot is currently considered a "single author." If one or more works are by a distinct, homonymous authors, go ahead and split the author.

This entry includes…

  • Joan Barfoot

Combine with…

What?

Q: What is this feature for/why is it necessary?

A: Because LibraryThing draws from so many different libraries, it can't enforce a single name for a given author. "Also known as" lets LibraryThing users combine author's names easily, so collections match up and everything runs smoothly.

Q: Can I combine with an author not suggested above?

A: Yes you can.

Q: I know an author is separate, but some well-meaning but deplorably uninformed person keeps combining them! Can I take a name off the combination list?

A: Yes you can.

Look up! Everything in the "Combine with..." section now has a link to "never combine." Use this feature wisely. "Marc Twain" may be idiotic, but misspelling should still be combined. "Mark Twain" and "Edward Gibbon" should not.

Q: What authors have already been slated to "never combine" with this author?

A: No authors.

Q: I am said person and I'm right!

A: Take it to the Combiners group.

Become a member to do this.

Some author links

 

Help/FAQs | About | Privacy/Terms | Blog | Contact | LibraryThing.com | APIs | WikiThing | Common Knowledge | 45,936,781 books!
Copyright LibraryThing and/or members of LibraryThing, authors, publishers, libraries, cover designers, Amazon, Bol, Bruna, etc. | static: /