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Thanks also to Pamela Fawcett for her excellent typing skills.

I owe a great debt to the University of Waterloo Library and to Memorial University of Newfoundland Library where much of my research took place, and to the Canada Council and the Ontario Arts Council for financial assistance during the tenure of this project. I would also like to thank the English Department of Memorial University of Newfoundland and the English Department of the University of Ottawa for enjoyable and productive writer-in-residencies.

And, once again, a special thank you to Ellen Seligman.

Jane Urquhart was born in Little Long Lac, Ontario, and grew up in Toronto. She is the author of seven acclaimed novels:
The Whirlpool
, which received Le prix du meilleur livre étranger (Best Foreign Book Award) in France;
Changing Heaven; Away
, winner of the Trillium Book Award and a finalist for the prestigious International
IMPAC
Dublin Literary Award;
The Underpainter
, winner of the Governor General’s Award and a finalist for the Rogers Communications Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize;
The Stone Carvers
, which was a finalist for The Giller Prize and the Governor General’s Award, and longlisted for the Booker Prize;
A Map of Glass
, a finalist for a regional Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book; and, most recently,
Sanctuary Line
. She is also the author of a collection of short fiction,
Storm Glass;
four books of poetry; a biography of L.M. Montgomery for the Extraordinary Canadians series; and the editor of
The Penguin Book of Canadian Short Stories
. Her work has been translated into numerous foreign languages.

Urquhart has received the Marian Engel Award and the Harbourfront Festival Prize, and is a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France and an Officer of the Order of Canada. She has received numerous honorary doctorates from Canadian universities and has been writer-in-residence at the University of Ottawa and at Memorial University of Newfoundland, and held the Presidential Writer-in-Residence Fellowship at the University of Toronto.

Jane Urquhart lives in Northumberland County, Ontario, and occasionally in Ireland.