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Margaret Laurence

Canada (1926 - 1987)

About Margaret Laurence

Margaret Laurence grew up in a small prairie town in Canada. She lived in Africa and then England where she wrote her famous Manawaka series.

Series

African
This Side Jordan (1960)
The Prophet's Camel Bell (1963)
The Tomorrow-Tamer (1963)

Somalia
New Wind in a Dry Land (1964)

Manawka
The Stone Angel (1964)
A Jest of God (1966)
The Fire-dwellers (1969)
A Bird in the House: Stories (1970)
The Diviners (1974)

Novels

Happy Families (1958)
Now I Lay Me Down (1968)
Jason's Quest (1970)
Test of God (1977)
Six Darn Cows (1979)
The Olden Days Coat (1979)
Christmas Birthday Story (1980)
Heart Of A Stranger (1984)

Collections

Embryo Words: Margaret Laurence's Early Writings (1997)

Non fiction

Long Drums and Cannons: Nigerian Dramatists And Novelists, 1952-1966 (1968)
Dance On the Earth: A Memoir (1989)
Margaret Laurence - Al Purdy: A friendship in letters : selected correspondence (1993)
A Very Large Soul: Selected Letters of Margaret Laurence (1995)
Selected Letters of Margaret Laurence and Adele Wiseman (1997)

Margaret Laurence recommends

Not Wanted on the Voyage (1985)
Timothy Findley
"This marvellously fantastic fable, an awesome and poetic rendition of the ancient one, is tender and terrifying, humorous and heart-rending, abundant in implications and questions for our own desperately hurting and threatened world."

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