Well Known People Who Happen to be Canadian

Authors

• Atwood, Margaret: Author. "The Handmaid's Tale", "Bodily Harm", "The Robber Bride"
• Bantock, Nick: Author, Illustrator. "Griffin & Sabine"
• Bellow, Saul: Author, Nobel laureate. "The Adventures of Augie March", "Humbolt's Gift"
• Berton, Pierre: Author. "Klondike", "The National Dream", "The Last Spike"
• Carrier, Roch: Author. "La Guerre, Yes Sir!"
• Cohen, Leonard: Author, Musician. "Suzanne", "Beautiful Losers",
• Coupland, Douglas: Author. "Generation X", "Microserfs"
• Davies, Robertson: Author. "Fifth Business", "Rebel Angels", "The Cunning Man"
• Findley, Timothy: Author, "Not Wanted on the Voyage", "The Wars"
• Galbraith, John Kenneth: Economist, Author.
• Gibson, William: Author. "Neuromancer", "Johnny Mnemonic"
• Hébert, Anne: Author. "Kamouraska", "Héloise"
• Kinsella, W.P.: Author. "Shoeless Joe", filmed as "Field of Dreams"
• Laurence, Margaret: Author. "The Diviners", "The Stone Angel"
• Leacock, Stephen: Author, Humourist. "Literary Lapses"
• Lowry, Malcolm: Author. "Under the Volcano"
• McCrae, John: Poet, Physician. "In Flanders Fields"
• McLuhan, Marshall: Media Theorist, Author. "the medium is the message", appeared in "Annie Hall"
• Maillet, Antonine: Author. "Pelagie-la-Charrette", "La Sagouine"
• Mitchell, W. O.: Author. "Who Has Seen the Wind", "Jake and the Kid"
• Montgomery, Lucy Maude: Author. "Anne of Green Gables"
• Moore, Brian: Author. "The Luck of Ginger Coffey", "Black Robe"
• Mowat, Farley: Author. "Never Cry Wolf"
• Munro, Alice: Author. Short-stories often featured in The New Yorker
• Ondaatje, Michael: Author. "Coming Through Slaughter", "The English Patient"
• Richler, Mordecai: Author. "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz", "Joshua Then and Now"
• Roy, Gabrielle: Author. "Bonheur d'Occasion" (translation published as "The Tin Flute")
• Service, Robert W.: Author. "The Shooting of Dan McGrew", "The Cremation of Sam McGee","Songs of a Sourdough"
• Shields, Carol: Pulitzer Prize winning Author. "The Stone Diaries"
• Smart, Elizabeth: Author. "By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept"
• Tremblay, Michel: Playwright. "Sainte Carmen of the Main"

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