Leon Rooke

Leon Rooke, CM (born September 11, 1934) is a Canadian novelist. He was born in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina in the United States. Educated at the University of North Carolina, he moved to Canada in 1969. He now lives in Toronto, Ontario.

Leon Rooke
Rooke at the Eden Mills Writers' Festival in 2013
Born	(1934-09-11) September 11, 1934 (age 90)
Notable awards	Order of Canada
Website
www.leonrooke.ca

Rooke helped to found the Eden Mills Writers' Festival in 1989.^[1] In 2002, Rooke championed The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence in that year's edition of Canada Reads. Rooke's work also appears in Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts.

In 2007, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada.^[2]

Bibliography

Novels

• Fat Woman (1980) — nominated for a Governor General's Award
• Shakespeare's Dog (1983) — winner of the 1983 Governor General's Award for Fiction
• A Good Baby (1989)
• Who Goes There (1998)
• The Fall of Gravity (2000)
• The Beautiful Wife (2005)

Short story collections

Approximately 350 short stories published.

• Last One Home Sleeps in the Yellow Bed (1968)
• Vault (1973)
• The Love Parlour (1977)
• The Broad Back of the Angel (1977)
• Cry Evil (1980)
• Death Suite (1981)
• The Birth Control King of the Upper Volta (1982)
• Sing Me No Love Songs, I'll Say You No Prayers: Selected Stories (1984)
• A Bolt of White Cloth (1984)
• How I Saved the Province (1989)
• The Happiness of Others (1991)
• Who Do You Love (1992)
• Art. Three Fictions in Prose (1997)
• Oh! Twenty-Seven Stories (1997)
• Painting the Dog: The Best Stories of Leon Rooke (2001)
• Hitting the Charts: Selected Stories (2006)
• The Last Shot: Eleven Stories and a Novella (2009)
• Swinging Through Dixie (2016)
• Fabulous Fictions and Peculiar Practices, with Tony Calzetta (2016)

Poetry

• Hot Poppies (2005)
• The April Poems (2013)