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Lawson, Mary 1946-
PERSONAL:
Born 1946, in Blackwell, Ontario, Canada; married; husband's name Richard; children: sons. Education:McGill University, B.S., 1968.
ADDRESSES:
Home—Surrey, England.
CAREER:
Writer and novelist. Worked as a behavioral scientist in a steel industry research lab, London, England.
AWARDS, HONORS:
Amazon Canada First Novel Award, Society of Authors Award, and Today Book Club pick, all for Crow Lake; nominated for the Man Booker Prize, 2006, for The Other Side of the Bridge.
WRITINGS:
Crow Lake (novel), A.A. Knopf Canada (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 2002.
The Other Side of the Bridge (novel), Dial Press (New York, NY), 2006.
SIDELIGHTS:
Mary Lawson's debut novel, Crow Lake, began as a short story she wrote in the 1980s. Crow Lake is set in a small, quiet community of the same name in Northern Ontario, where Lawson spent the summers in her childhood. Kate Morrison's parents were killed when a logging truck hit their car. Desperate to keep their family together, her older brother Luke, then just nineteen, gave up his college educ
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Mary Lawson Biography, Books, and Similar Authors
Mary Lawson Biography
Mary Lawson was born and brought up in a small farming community in Ontario. She is the author of the nationally and internationally bestselling novels Crow Lake, The Other Side of the Bridge, and Road Ends. Crow Lake was a New York Times bestseller and was chosen as a Book of the Year by The New York Times and The Washington Post, among others. The Other Side of the Bridge was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. A Town Called Solace is her fourth novel. Lawson lives in England but returns to Canada frequently.
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Mary Lawson (novelist)
Canadian novelist
Mary Lawson | |
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| Born | 1946 (age 78–79) Blackwell, Ontario, Canada |
| Pen name | Mary Lawson |
| Occupation | Psychologist, novelist |
Mary Lawson (born 1946) is a Canadian novelist best known for her award-winning novel Crow Lake (2002), and her Booker Prize longlisted novels The Other Side of the Bridge and A Town Called Solace.
Biography
Born in southwestern Ontario, she spent her childhood in Blackwell, Ontario, and is a distant relative of L. M. Montgomery, author of Anne of Green Gables. Her father worked as a research chemist. With a psychology degree in hand from McGill University, Lawson took a trip to Britain and ended up accepting a job as an industrial psychologist. She married a British psychologist, Richard Mobbs. Lawson spent her summers in the north, and the landscape inspired her to use Northern Ontario as her settings for both her novels.[1] Lawson later admitted that Muskoka, where she spent her summers, "isn't and never was the North", but the area now called Cottage Countr
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