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Linda Spalding (née Dickinson) (born 25 June 1943) is a Canadian writer and editor. Born in Topeka, Kansas, the daughter of Jacob Alan Dickinson and Edith Senner, she lived in Mexico and Hawaii before moving to Toronto, Ontario in 1982.〔http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/ondaatje.html〕 She has two daughters, Esta and Kristin Spalding, from her first marriage to photographer Philip Spalding. Linda Spalding is currently married to Canadian novelist Michael Ondaatje; Linda, Esta and Michael are also on the editorial board of the national literary magazine, ''Brick''.〔http://www.brickmag.com/〕 Spalding's work has been honoured numerous times; her non-fiction work, ''The Follow'', was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award and the Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize. She has since received the Harbourfront Festival Prize for her contribution to the Canadian literary community〔http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=29189〕 and, in 2012, the Governor-General’s Literary Award for her novel, ''The Purchase''.〔http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/linda-spalding-wins-governor-generals-award/article5236277/〕 Spalding has worked as a professor of English and writing at the University of Hawaii, York University, the University of Guelph, Brown University (where she was writer-in-residence in 1991), the University of Toronto and Ryerson University. She has also taught creative writing at Humber College's School for Writers.〔http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/ondaatje.html〕 Prior to this, she has worked as a manager for Hawaii Public Television and as the director of a child care services agency in Kailua, Hawaii. ==Bibliography== * ''Daughters of Captain Cook'' (1987) * ''The Paper Wife'' (1994) * ''The Follow'' / ''A Dark Place in the Jungle: Following Leakey's Last Angel into Borneo'' (1999) * ''Riska'' (1999) * ''The Brick Reader'' - (1999) (edited with Michael Ondaatje) * ''Lost Classics'' - (2000, Knopf Canada; ISBN 0-676-97299-3) (edited with Michael Redhill, Esta Spalding and Michael Ondaatje) * ''Mere'' - (2001, HarperFlamingo Canada; ISBN 0-00-225538-3) (with Esta Spalding) * ''Who Named The Knife'' (2005) * ''The Purchase'' (2012) 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「Linda Spalding」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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