D. R. MacDonald

D. R. MacDonald is the pen name of David R. MacDonald, a Canadian-American writer who publishes novels and short stories.^[1] Born on Boularderie Island, Nova Scotia and raised in Ohio, he is a professor emeritus of creative writing at Stanford University.^[2] He still spend summers at the family homestead in Cape Breton Island, which he purchased in 1971, and his fiction is set in Cape Breton.^[1]

D. R. MacDonald
Born	David R. MacDonald 1939 (age 85–86) Boularderie, Nova Scotia
Occupation	Novelist, short story writer
Nationality	Canadian-American
Period	1980s–present
Notable works	Cape Breton Road, Lauchlin of the Bad Heart

His novel Lauchlin of the Bad Heart was a longlisted nominee for the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2007.

Works

• Eyestone (1988, short stories)
• Cape Breton Road (2001, novel)
  • in German: Die Straße nach Cape Breton. Transl. Heidi Zerning. S. Fischer, Francfort 2002
• All the Men Are Sleeping (2002, short stories)
• Lauchlin of the Bad Heart (2007, novel)
• Anna From Away (2012, novel)
• The Ice Bridge (2013, novel)