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Betty Jane Wylie, (born February 21, 1931) is a Canadian writer and playwright. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1951 and a Master of Arts degree in 1952 from the University of Manitoba. In 2003, she was made a Member of the Order of Canada, Canada's highest civilian honor. In her book "The Write Track" she discusses how to succeed as a freelance writer in Canada. ==Selected bibliography== * PUBLICATIONS NON-FICTION Letters to Icelanders: Exploring the Northern Soul Enough: Lifestyle and Financial Planning for Simpler Living Family: An Exploration Beginnings: A Book for Widows (20th anniversary edition) The Best Is Yet to Come (with Christopher Cottier) Life’s Losses (reprint of New Beginnings) Everywoman’s Money book (with Lynne Macfarlane) New Beginnings: Living Through Loss and Grief All in the Family: A Survival Guide for Living and Loving in a Changing World Successfully Single COOKBOOKS Solo Chef: Recipes, Tips, Advice and Encourage for Single Cooks The Betty Jane Wylie Cheese Cookbook Encore: The Leftovers Cookbook POETRY The Better Half: Women’s Voices Something Might Happen The Second Shepherds’ Play (one version) BELLES LETTRES Reading Between the Lines: The Diaries of Women Men! A Collection of Quotations About Men by Women BIOGRAPHY The Book of Matthew The Horsburgh Scandal (play as well) INSPIRATIONAL Betty Jane’s Diary: Lessons Children Taught Me Betty Jane’s Diary: Passages Betty Jane’s Diary: Holidays and Celebrations No Two Alike CHILDREN’S BOOKS John of a Thousand Faces Tecumseh PLAYS Veranda Time Bomb Double Vision The Horsburgh Scandal (with Theatre Passe Muraille) Mark Jason Androgyne Angel Speculum Grace Under Pressure The Second Shepherds’ Play (2 translations, 1 adaptation; see Musicals) Steps How to Speak Male Help Is on the Way (six-part series) A Day In the Life (two short plays, one theme) A Place on Earth (one-hander) Double Swap (with Michael Cole) Size Ten I See You An Enemy of the People (adaptation, set in Saskatchewan) PLAYS FOR CHILDREN Don’t Just Stand There - Jiggle! (a collection of 5 puppet plays) Kingsayer The Old Woman and the Pedlar RADIO PLAYS Memories of Canada How to Speak Male Sybil: A Novel for Radio Mountain Woman Victorian Spice (Award Winner)\ Betty Jane’s Diary (a daily personal column, written and performed; syndicated by Berkeley Studio, Toronto, broadcast by independent radio stations in Canada) MUSICALS/OPERA Beowulf (music by Victor Davies) Soap Bubbles (music by Victor Davies The Second Shepherds’ Play (church version, music by Quenten Doolittle) Boy in a Cage (chamber opera, music by Ken Nichols) 4 five-minute operas for Tapestry New Opera Works (produced for a Lib-Lab) Gotcha (15-minute opera for Tapestry New Opera Works) RECORDINGS Beowulf (three-record album, Golden Toad Label) Beowulf (two-record album, Daffodil Label), and a CD TELEVISION AND FILM Women, Lifestyle, and Money 13-part series- writer/narrator host) Coming of Age (MOW-movie of the week, with Donald Martin) CrossTalk (12-part series for VISION TV- writer, facilitator, host) Shadow Lake (MOW, story credit) became Paradise Falls (2 episodes in first year) JOURNALISM Published in Canadian magazines and newspapers including MacLean’s, Chatelaine, Homemakers, Toronto Life, Miss Chatelaine (now Flare), Calgary Magazine, Canadian Living, Performing Arts, Canadian Theatre Review, Recipes Only, Fiddlehead, Forum, Fifty Plus, Gourmet (USA), Today, The Canadian, The Icelandic Canadian, Prairie Fire, Quest, City Woman, City Magazine, Ontario Living, Leisureways, the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, the Winnipeg Free Press, the Boston Globe SPECIAL NEWSPAPER ASSIGNMENTS “The Old Lady Caper” and “The Psycho Trip” (2 5-part series of investigative journalism) “Summer Soap (three-month daily summer serial) BOOKS ABOUT HER WORK Female Parts: The Art and Politics of Female Playwrights, by Yvonne Hodkinson The Canadian Dramatist, volume Two, by Diane Bessai ANTHOLOGIES WHERE HER WORK HAS APPEARED Dropped Threads: What We Aren’t Told (“The Imaginary Woman”) Inter S E C T I O N S: Fiction and Poetry from the Banff Centre for the Arts (“Mirror Image”, excerpt from an unpublished novel) Going Some Place (“A Guest of Karen Blixen”) Six Fantasy Plays for Children (“The Old Woman and the Pedlar”) Unexpected Fictions (“Memories of Chocolate Sauce”) Recipes Only First Class Acts (“The Discovery Trunk”) The Perfect Piece (“Anna”) Another Perfect Piece (“Jason”) AND DESCRIBED, REFERRED TO IN Pierre Berton’s book about writing, and a collection of essays by Jane Rule 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Betty Jane Wylie」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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