Shadow Maker: The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen
by Rosemary Sullivan
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There is no doubt Rosemary Sullivan is a biographer of extraordinary talent. Her first biography, By Heart: Elizabeth Smart: A Life was a bestseller and nominated for a Governor General's Award. Her third biography, The Red Shoes: Margaret Atwood, Starting Out, was also a highly acclaimed national bestseller. And her second, Shadow Maker, won the Governor General's Award for Non-Fiction, the Canadian Authors Association Award for Non-Fiction, the City of Toronto Book Award and the University show more of British Columbia Medal for Canadian Biography. Now part of the PerennialCanada library, Shadow Maker reveals the many faces of Gwendolyn MacEwen, the magical and mesmerizing Canadian poet who died suddenly at the age of 46. show lessTags
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I have a love-hate relationship wiuth this book: I love Rosemary Sullivan's writing, but I have this deep-seated fear of becoming Gwen MacEwen, and not really knowing it until I'm found dead and cat-chewed. There's something spooky about how vivid Sullivan makes her, and how much I feel echoes between our lives.
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Rosemary Sullivan has written poetry, short fiction, biography, literary criticism, reviews, and articles, and has edited numerous anthologies. Her biography of Gwendolyn MacEwen, Shadow Maker, won the Governor General's Award, the UBC Medal for Canadian Biography, and the Toronto Book Award. She also wrote the bestselling biography Stalin's show more Daughter-winner of the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize, the BC National Non-Fiction Award, and the RBC Taylor Prize, among other awards; as well as By Heart, a biography of Elizabeth Smart; and the personal memoir The Guthrie Road. Her other books include the critically acclaimed Villa Air-Bel, Labyrinth of Desire, and Memory-Making, as well as The Space a Name Makes, which won the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. She is a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto and has been awarded Guggenheim, Camargo, and Trudeau fellowships. She is a recipient of the Lorne Pierce Medal, awarded by the Royal Society of Canada, for her contribution to Canadian literature and culture and is an Officer of the Order of Canada. show less
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- Shadow Maker: The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen
- People/Characters
- Gwendolyn MacEwen
- Dedication
- To Juan
and to my sisters, Patricia, Sharon, and Colleen - First words
- Gwendolyn MacEwan walked onto the stage of the Music Hall Theatre on the evening of September 8, 1982.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)She is the Shadow Maker.
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- Genres
- Biography & Memoir, Fiction and Literature, Literature Studies and Criticism
- DDC/MDS
- 811.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American poetry 20th Century 1945-1999
- LCC
- PR9199.3 .M313 .Z87 — Language and Literature English English Literature English literature: Provincial, local, etc.
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- English
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