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Audrey Grace Thomas, OC (née Callahan; born 17 November 1935)[1] is a Canadian novelist and short story writer who lives on Galiano Island, British Columbia. Her stories often have feminist themes and include exotic settings.[2] She is a recipient of the Marian Engel Award.

Biography

Born in Binghamton, New York, she immigrated in 1959 to Canada,[3] where she attended and later taught at the University of British Columbia. From 1964 to 1966 she lived in Ghana, and some of her stories are set there and in other distant places.[4][5] In 1987 she won the Marian Engel Award for her body of work.

Thomas lived in Edinburgh, Scotland in the 1980s, and wrote articles for Saturday Night Magazine.[6]

She has three times received the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, for Intertidal Life (1984),[7] Wild Blue Yonder (1990), and Coming Down from Wa (1995). In 2008, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.[8]

In 2014 she published her eighteenth book, Local Customs.[9]

Bibliography

Novels

• Mrs. Blood – 1970
• Munchmeyer and Prospero on the Island – 1971
• Songs My Mother Taught Me – 1973
• Blown Figures – 1974
• Latakia – 1979
• Intertidal Life – 1984 (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
• Graven Images – 1993
• Coming Down from Wa – 1995 (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
• Isobel Gunn – 1999[10]
• Tattycoram
• Local Customs – 2014

Short stories

• Ten Green Bottles – 1967
• ladies and escorts – 1977
• Real Mothers – 1981
• Two in the Bush and Other Stories – 1981
• Goodbye Harold, Good Luck – 1986
• The Wild Blue Yonder – 1990
• The Path of Totality – 2001

References

External links

• Audrey Thomas's entry in The Canadian Encyclopedia
• The archives of Audrey Thomas (Thomas Audrey fonds, R11818) are held at Library and Archives Canada

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