Marianne Brandis (1938-) Biography - Awards, Honors, Writings, Sidelights - Personal, Addresses, Career, Member, Work in Progress
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Born 1938, in Amersfoort, The Netherlands; Brandis. Education: Attended University of British Columbia, 1956-58, and St. Francis Xavier University, 1958-59; McMaster University, B.A., 1960, M.A., 1964. Hobbies and other interests: Walking, reading, music, history, family archives.
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Marianne Brandis
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, writer of promotional material, 1964-66; Ryerson Polytechnic, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, instructor in English, 1967-89; writer.
Writers Union of Canada; Canadian Children's Book Center.
A biography of her mother; a novel for adults; a memoir about being a single woman.
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This Spring's Sowing (novel), McClelland & Stewart (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1970. A Sense of Dust (short story), illustrated by Gerard Brenner à Brandis, Brandstead (Carlisle, Ontario, Canada), 1972. The Tinderbox (novel), illustrated by Gerard Brenner à Brandis, Porcupine's Quill (Erin, Ontario, Canada), 1982, Tundra Books (Plattsburgh, NY), 2003. The Quarter-Pie Window…
Canadian writer Marianne Brandis is noted for her ability to recreate convincingly the Canada of the early nineteenth century—particularly in and around the city of Toronto—for young readers. As Jeanette Lynes and S. R. MacGillivray noted in Canadian Children's Literature, "Brandis provides . . . meticulous research in re-creating the lives of ordinary people caught up …
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