Lesley Choyce

Lesley Choyce

Lesley Choyce (born 21 March 1951) is a Canadian author of novels, non-fiction, children's books, and poetry.

Born in Riverside Township, New Jersey, he was educated at Rutgers University, CUNY, and Montclair State University. He emigrated to Canada in 1979 and lives in East Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia.

Choyce is a part-time instructor at Dalhousie University, host of the television series Choyce Words and Off the Page, and Founding Director of Pottersfield Press.

Choyce is the author of 65 books, and has won The Dartmouth Book Award and the Ann Connor Brimer Award.

Bibliography

Biographical

*"Driving Minnie's Piano: Memoirs of a Surfing Life in Nova Scotia" (2006)

Fiction

*"Eastern Sure" (1980)
*"Downwind" (1984)
*"Billy Botzweiler's Last Dance" (1984)
*"Conventional Emotions" (1985)
*"The Dream Auditor: Short Stories" (1986)
*"Coming Up for Air" (1988)
*"The Second Season of Jan MacPherson" (1989)
*"Magnificent Obsessions" (1991)
*"The Ecstasy Conspiracy" (1992)
*"The Republic of Nothing" (1994)
*"World Enough" (1998)
*"The Summer of Apartment X" (1999)
*"Clear Cold Morning" (2002)
*"Shoulder the Sky" (2002)
*"The End Of The World As We Know It" (2007)

Non-fiction

*"An Avalanche of Ocean" (1987)
*"December Six/The Halifax Solution" (1988)
*"Transcendental Anarchy: Confessions of a Metaphysical Tourist" (1993)
*"Nova Scotia Shaped by the Sea: A Living History" (1997)
*"The Coasts of Canada" (2002)

Children's literature

*"Skateboard Shakedown" (1989)
*"The Hungry Lizzards" (1990)
*"Wave Watch" (1990)
*"Wrong Time, Wrong Place" (1991)
*"Some Kind of Hero" (1991)
*"Margin of Error" (1992)
*"Clearcut Danger" (1992)
*"Full Tilt" (1993)
*"Good Idea Gone Bad" (1993)
*"The Dark End of Dream Street" (1994)
*"Big Burn" (1995)
*"Go For it Carrie" (1997)
*"Carrie's Crowd" (1998)
*"Famous at Last" (1998)
*"Roid Rage" (1999)
*"Far Enough Island" (2000)
*"Carrie's Camping Adventure" (2001)

Poetry

*"Re-Inventing the Wheel" (1980)
*"Fast Living" (1982)
*"The End of Ice" (1985)
*"To the Top of the Heart" (1986)
*"The Coastline of Forgetting" (1995)
*"Beautiful Sadness" (1998)
*"Caution to the Wind" (2000)

Discography

*"Long Lost Planet". Halifax: Deep Nine/Pottersfield, 1996. (music/poetry)
*"Sea Level". Halifax: Deep Nine/Pottersfield, 1998. (music/poetry)

External links

* [http://www.lesleychoyce.com Lesley Choyce's website]


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