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  1. Alistair MacLeod, OC FRSC (July 20, 1936 – April 20, 2014) was a Canadian novelist, short story writer and academic. His powerful and moving stories vividly evoke the beauty of Cape Breton Island 's rugged landscape and the resilient character of many of its inhabitants, the descendants of Scottish immigrants, who are haunted by ...

  2. May 6, 2024 · Alistair MacLeod was a Canadian author renowned for his mastery of the short-story genre. MacLeod’s parents were natives of Cape Breton Island in northeastern Nova Scotia, and, when MacLeod was 10 years old, he and his family returned there.

  3. Apr 24, 2014 · Alistair MacLeod, a Canadian writer whose only novelcomposed over 13 years and extracted from him only after a campaign by his publisher involving surveillance, subterfuge and outright...

  4. A chronicler of the landscape and people of Cape Breton, Alistair MacLeod is the author of three books of short stories, an acclaimed novel, and an illustrated Christmas story. After living on the prairies, his family moved back to Inverness County, Nova Scotia, when he was 10.

  5. Apr 20, 2014 · A specialist in British literature of the nineteenth century, MacLeod taught English for three years at Indiana University before accepting a post in 1969 at the University of Windsor as professor of English and creative writing. During the summer, his family resided in Cape Breton, where he spent part. ...more. Combine Editions.

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  6. Alistair MacLeod has 37 books on Goodreads with 32683 ratings. Alistair MacLeods most popular book is No Great Mischief.

  7. May 7, 2014 · This is my favourite Alistair MacLeod moment: It was December, 2001, just days before Christmas. I had recently left a job I loved for one I hated; we had no money; I was in a particularly dark...