Tag: Timothy Findley

Cigarette packet with Timothy Findley’s handwritten book proposal for Pilgrim

While at lunch with his editor, Iris Tupholme, Canadian author Timothy Findley reached into his pocket to read from a note that he had written on the inside flap of his cigarette package. More

Pilgrim

A finalist for the Giller Prize and a Canadian bestseller that surpassed the author’s own impressive sales records. More

Barometer Rising

The first novel by MacLennan, one of Canada’s most significant novelists of the mid-twentieth century. More

Rosemary Sullivan

I write out of compulsion. “The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner,” as Alan Sillitoe remarked—the exhilaration and discipline of the run; the finish line unknown until you get there. More

Rosemary Sullivan

Blonde

A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. More

People of the Book

Winner of the Australian Book Industry Awards Book of the Year 2008. More

Original proposal for Lawrence Hill’s The Book of Negroes

Lawrence Hill’s agent, Janet Turnbull Irving, submitted this one-page summary for his as yet unwritten novel Migration to HarperCollins Canada Editor-in-Chief Iris Tupholme in 1998. More

The Poisonwood Bible

Pulitzer Prize finalist and runaway bestseller. More

Bel Canto

Patchett’s critically acclaimed novel that won the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction. More

Matt Haig

It sounds ridiculous, but reading saved my life. More

Matt Haig

Candy package with Timothy Findley’s plans for his novella You Went Away

Canadian author Timothy Findley’s only novella, You Went Away (1996), was based on his parents’ marriage. More

T. C. Boyle

I read in the way that I breathe, as a necessity of life. More

T. C. Boyle

Emma Donoghue

Like many teenagers, I spent more of my summer holidays than I probably should have immersed in the world of The Lord of the Rings. More

Emma Donoghue

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

This 1972 Booker Prize–nominated novel was also made into a 1978 Australian film. More

Michael Chabon

The first writer that I really fell in love with was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in particular his Sherlock Holmes stories, and the first story that I ever wrote was a Sherlock Holmes story. More

Michael Chabon

Shilpi Somaya Gowda

At every stage of life, since being a kid with a flashlight under the covers, reading has always been my favorite activity. More

Shilpi Somaya Gowda

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

The Pulitzer Prize–winning novel of fate, tragedy, and the meaning of the human condition. More

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Kundera’s postmodern masterwork; named one of the best books of 1984 (New York Times Book Review). More

The Corrections

Winner of the National Book Award in 2001 and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 2002. More

The Known World

The Pulitzer Prize–winning novel that examines the troubling complexities of slavery. More

Room

Winner of the 2011 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize regional prize; made into a major motion picture. More

Lawrence Hill

Writing is the one pursuit I have always pursued, and always known I was compelled to pursue. More

Lawrence Hill

One Hundred Years of Solitude

This landmark of magical realism sparked a wave of interest in Central and South American literature. More

The 42nd Parallel

The first volume of the “brilliantly original” (Alfred Kazan) U.S.A. trilogy, a landmark of modernism. More

The Book of Negroes

A milestone in Canada’s understanding of black history and one of the bestselling books in Canadian publishing history. More

Lionel Shriver

Why I write: To find out what I think. More

Lionel Shriver

The Stone Diaries

Winner of the 1993 Governor General’s Award (Canada) and the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. More