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Don Dickinson

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Nationality
  
Canadian

Role
  
Lawyer

Period
  
1980s-2000s

Party
  
Democratic Party

Spouse
  
Chellie

Succeeded by
  
John Wanamaker

Name
  
Don Dickinson


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Occupation
  
short story writer, novelist

Notable works
  
Blue Husbands, The Crew, Robbiestime, Fighting the Upstream

Died
  
October 15, 1917, United States of America

Education
  
University of Michigan Law School, University of Michigan

Don Dickinson (born 1947 in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian writer. He was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 1991 Governor General's Awards for his short story collection Blue Husbands, and for the 1993 Books in Canada First Novel Award for his novel The Crew. Blue Husbands was also a winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize in 1992.

Dickinson has published one other short story collection and two novels. A graduate of the University of Saskatchewan and the University of British Columbia, he worked primarily as a school teacher in Lillooet, British Columbia. He served on the jury for the Governor General's Awards in 1996.

Works

  • Fighting the Upstream (1987)
  • Blue Husbands (1991)
  • The Crew (1993)
  • Robbiestime (2000)
  • References

    Don Dickinson Wikipedia