Joan Clark

Joan Clark BA, D.Litt. (hon.) (née MacDonald) (born 12 October 1934) is a Canadian fiction author.

For the U.S. diplomat, see Joan M. Clark.
Not to be confused with Joan Clarke.

Joan Clark
Born12 October 1934
OccupationAuthor
GenreChildren's Literature

Born in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, Clark spent her youth in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. She attended Acadia University for its drama program, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree with English major in 1957.[1] She has worked as a teacher.

Clark moved to Alberta in the early 1960s with her engineer husband[2] and attended the University of Alberta before moving to Calgary in1965. There she started to write stories.[3] She lived in Alberta for two decades.[4] In 1975, she and Edna Alford started the literary journal Dandelion in that province. In 1976, she studied with W. O. Mitchell at the Banff Centre.[5] Clark also served as president of the Writers' Guild of Alberta. She eventually returned to Atlantic Canada in 1985,[4] settling in St. John's, Newfoundland. There she was a founding member of the Writers Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador.[2]

Clark served on the jury of the 2001 Giller Prize. In 2010 she was made a Member of the Order of Canada. In 2018, An Audience of Chairs, a film adaptation of her novel was released in 2018.


Awards and recognition

Books
  • 1968: Girl of the Rockies
  • 1971: Thomasina and the Trout Tree (Tundra) ISBN 0-912766-02-6
  • 1977: The Hand of Robin Squires (Clarke, Irwin) ISBN 0-7720-1091-9 (La main de Robin Squires: le mystere de l'ile aux Chenes, translated by Claude Aubry (P. Tisseyre, 1984) ISBN 2-89051-158-8)
Penguin Canada paperback editions: ISBN 0-14-031905-0, ISBN 0-14-301512-5
other paperback editions: ISBN 0-7720-1311-X, ISBN 0-7736-7426-8
  • 1982: From a High Thin Wire (NeWest) ISBN 0-920316-51-4
  • 1985: Wild Man of the Woods (Viking Canada) ISBN 0-670-80015-5
Penguin Canada paperback ISBN 0-14-031788-0
  • 1987: The Moons of Madeleine (Viking Kestrel) ISBN 0-670-81284-6
Penguin Canada paperback ISBN 0-14-032182-9
  • 1988: The Victory of Geraldine Gull (Macmillan of Canada) ISBN 0-7715-9281-7
  • 1990: Swimming Toward the Light (Macmillan of Canada) ISBN 0-7715-9975-7
  • 1993: Eiriksdottir: A Tale of Dreams and Luck (Macmillan of Canada) ISBN 0-7715-9009-1
  • 1995: The Dream Carvers (Viking Canada) ISBN 0-670-85858-7 (Les sculpteurs de rêves, translated by Catherine Germain (P. Tisseyre, 2004) ISBN 2-89051-773-X)
Penguin Canada paperback ISBN 0-14-038629-7
  • 2000: Latitudes of Melt (Knopf Canada) ISBN 0-676-97288-8
Vintage Canada paperback , ISBN 0-676-97291-8
  • 2002: The Word for Home (Viking Canada) ISBN 0-670-91121-6
  • 2005: An Audience of Chairs (Knopf Canada) ISBN 0-676-97655-7
  • 2015: The Birthday Lunch (Knopf Canada) ISBN 0-345-80956-4

References
  1. "Joan Clark - Biography". Acadia University. Retrieved 10 November 2014.
  2. Kirchoff, Jack (20 June 1990). "Book Notes". The Globe and Mail.
  3. Vowles, Andrew (14 October 2000). "Finding their voices: Successful novelists discuss the different routes to a writing career". The Spectator.
  4. McGoogan, Kenneth (1991). Canada's Undeclared War: Fighting Words From the Literary Trenches. Calgary: Detselig Enterprises Ltd. pp. 174. ISBN 1-55059-032-4.
  5. Dacks, Barbara (2010). Alberta Encore. Edmonton, AB: 325127 Alberta Ltd. p. 121. ISBN 9780986669804.
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