Shauna Singh Baldwin

Shauna Singh Baldwin

Shauna Singh Baldwin (born 1962 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian-American novelist of Indian descent. Her 2000 novel "What the Body Remembers" won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book (Canadian/Caribbean Region), and her 2004 novel "The Tiger Claw" was nominated for the Giller Prize. She currently lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her second short-story collection, "We Are Not in Pakistan", is due to be released in Canada in 2007.

Baldwin and her husband own the [http://www.safe-house.com Safe House] , an espionage themed restaurant in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Bibliography

* "A Foreign Visitor's Survival Guide to America" (1992, coauthored)
* "English Lessons and Other Stories" (1996, short stories)
* "What the Body Remembers" (2000)
* "The Tiger Claw" (2004)
* "The Scatter Cushion" (1990)

External links

* [http://www.ShaunaSinghBaldwin.com Shauna Singh Baldwin's official website]
* [http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0009820 Shauna Singh Baldwin's] entry in [http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=HomePage&Params=A1 The Canadian Encyclopedia]


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