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  1. Linda Spalding (née Dickinson; June 25, 1943) is a Canadian writer and editor. Born in Topeka, Kansas, the daughter of Jacob Alan Dickinson and Edith Senner, she lived in Mexico and Hawaii before moving to Toronto, Ontario in 1982. [1] She has two daughters, Esta and Kristin Spalding, from her first marriage to photographer Philip Spalding.

  2. Dec 11, 2012 · Linda Spalding, writer, editor (born 25 June 1943 in Topeka, Kansas). Linda Spalding lived in Hawaii and Mexico before coming to Canada. In both her fiction and non-fiction, Spalding's elegant prose presents individuals living in insidious states of exile, either because of personal deed or destiny.

  3. About the Author. Linda Spalding was born in Kansas and lived in Mexico and Hawaii before immigrating to Canada in 1982. She is the author of four critically acclaimed novels, The Purchase (awarded Canada’s Governor General’s Literary Award), Daughters of Captain Cook , The Paper Wife, and (with her daughter Esta) Mere.

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  5. Oct 5, 2007 · by Linda Spalding. Pantheon, 258 pp., $23.95. Outwardly Linda Spalding and Maryann Acker’s lives are light-years apart, one a successful writer, the other a convicted killer. Yet in...

  6. Linda Spalding, Kansas-born Canadian fiction and nonfiction writer, often explores world cultures and the clash between contemporary life and traditional beliefs. Born in Topeka, she lived in Mexico and Hawaii before moving to Toronto, Ontario in 1982.

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  7. Linda Spalding won the 2012 Canadian governor-general's award for The Purchase (Sandstone Press, £8.99), and was longlisted for the IMPAC award. In this provocative and starkly beautiful ...

  8. Linda Spalding was born in Kansas and lived in Mexico and Hawaii before immigrating to Canada in 1982. She is the author of four critically acclaimed novels, The Purchase (awarded Canada's Governor General's Literary Award), Daughters of Captain Cook , The Paper Wife, and (with her daughter Esta) Mere.

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