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Also Known As	Susan Goyette
Born	April 4, 1964 (age 60) • Sherbrooke • Canada
Notable Works	“Antithesis: A Memoir” • “Lures” • “Outskirts” • “Penelope: In First Person” • “True Names of Birds, The” • “Undone”

James Crerar Reaney

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Michael Ondaatje

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Al Purdy

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John Glassco

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Margaret Atwood

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Anne Michaels

Canadian poet and novelist

Anne Carson

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Susan Musgrave

American-born author

Timothy Findley

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Isabella Valancy Crawford

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Morley Callaghan

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Earle Birney

Canadian writer and educator

Patrick Anderson

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Dorothy Livesay

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William Kirby

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Robert W. Service

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Graham Greene

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Colm Tóibín

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Simon Armitage

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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry

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