Name Rae Bridgman | Role Author | |
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Occupation Author, Illustrator, Anthropologist Genre Children's Literature, Scholarly Books Education York University, University of Toronto Books Safe Haven, The Serpent's Spell, StreetCities, Fish and Sphinx, Amber Ambrosia | ||
Fish and sphinx illustrations by rae bridgman
Rae St. Clair Bridgman is a Canadian anthropologist, and the author/illustrator of The MiddleGate Books, a series of fantasy books for children inspired by the Narcisse Snake Pits of Narcisse, Manitoba -- The Serpent’s Spell (McNally Robinson Book for Young People finalist 2006), Amber Ambrosia and Fish and Sphinx (Speculative Literature Foundation Honourable Mention 2008). The books feature the adventures of young cousins Wil and Sophie who live in the secret, magical city of MiddleGate, which has been beset by the return of an ancient secret society known as the Serpent's Chain.
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Bridgman is also the author of StreetCities: Rehousing the Homeless (Broadview Press, 2006) and Safe Haven: The Story of a Shelter for Homeless Women (University of Toronto Press, 2003), co-author of Braving the Street: The Anthropology of Homelessness (Berghahn Books, 1999) and co-editor of ''Feminist Fields: Ethnographic Insights (Broadview Press, 1999).
Background
Rae Bridgman was born in Toronto, and now lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Bridgman received her Bachelor of Arts degree (Classics) and her Bachelor of Music from the University of Toronto, and her Master's (Interdisciplinary Studies) and PhD (Anthropology) from York University. She holds the position of Professor in the Department of City Planning at the University of Manitoba in the Faculty of Architecture, and is a founding member of BridgmanCollaborative Architecture, a Winnipeg architectural firm. Her work spans children's fantasy novels and scholarly books.
Bridgman illustrates her fantasy novels with distinctive pen-and-ink drawings. Her books are also unique for their word-play and use of Latin as a magical language.
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