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Genre
  
Biography

Name
  
Anne Hart


Role
  
Canadian author

Education
  
Dalhousie University


Occupation
  
Library Research Professor

Notable works
  
The Life and Times of Miss Jane Marple, The Life and Times of Hercule Poirot

Books
  
Tracing Your Jewish D, The life and times of Miss Ja, Adventures in My Beloved, Sacramento Latina, Employment Personality Tests Dec

Anne Hart (née Hill), OC (born October 7, 1935) is a Canadian author specialising in biographies. She is best known for The Life and Times of Miss Jane Marple, her biography of the Agatha Christie character, and is a Member of the Order of Canada.

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Life and work

Ms. Hart received an arts degree from Dalhousie University and a library science degree from McGill University. She then started work with Newfoundland's Memorial University library in 1969 and made it her career until retirement in 1997. Notable positions during her time at Memorial University included head of the Centre for Newfoundland Studies and Library Research Professor.

Ms. Hart was one of the 2009 Winterset Board of Directors.

Awards

  • Member of the Order of Canada. Awarded on October 29, 2004, invested on September 9, 2005, for her "lasting contributions to the cultural life of her province" (Newfoundland and Labrador).
  • Ms. Hart's collaboration with Roberta Buchanan and Bryan Greene on "The Woman Who Mapped Labrador: The Life and Expedition Diary of Mina Hubbard" was shortlisted for the Winterset Award for excellence in Newfoundland and Labrador writing.
  • For her achievements as a biographer and for her contributions to Newfoundland studies, Anne Hart was awarded an honorary doctor of letters degree by Memorial University of Newfoundland.
  • Library Trustees' Association Annual Merit Award, for outstanding library trustee, 1986.

    • Sole authorship

    Ms. Hart's biographies of Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot were written with the full endorsement of Agatha Christie Limited.

  • The Life and Times of Miss Jane Marple (1985, Dodd Mead) - Biography of the Agatha Christie character.
  • The Life and Times of Hercule Poirot (1990, Putnam Adult) - Biography of the Agatha Christie character.
  • Into Unknown Labrador - an article published in Rediscovering Canada - Image, Place and Text (Nordic Association for Canadian Studies Text Series Vol. 16) edited by Gudrun Bjork Gudsteins. ISBN 9789979544616. Publisher: University of Iceland Press. Publication date: 2001/12/01.

    • Collaborations

  • The Woman Who Mapped Labrador: The Life and Expedition Diary of Mina Hubbard (2005, McGill-Queen's University Press) - In collaboration with Roberta Buchanan and Bryan Greene - Biography of the first white woman to cross Labrador. The three collaborators edited Mina Hubbard's diary, and Ms. Hart wrote the biography of Mina Hubbard.

    • Radio

    CBC Radio Ideas documentary: "Into Unknown Labrador: The Mina Hubbard Story", 1998-05-28. This lecture was also delivered by Ms. Hart to The Newfoundland Historical Society on January 27, 2000.

    References

    Anne Hart (Canadian author) Wikipedia
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