Jack Hodgins

"For the fictional character from Bones (TV series) see Jack Hodgins (Bones)"

Jack Hodgins (born October 3, 1938) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer.

Born in the Comox Valley, British Columbia, he attended the University of British Columbia, where he was encouraged by Earle Birney. He worked as a high school teacher of English in Nanaimo, British Columbia, before taking a position at the University of Victoria in the Creative Writing Department.

Critically acclaimed, among his best received works is "Broken Ground" (1998), a historical novel set after the First World War, for which he received the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.

Bibliography

Novels

*"The Invention of the World" – 1977
*"The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne" – 1979 (winner of the Governor General's Award for English Language Fiction)
*"The Honorary Patron" – 1987
*"Innocent Cities" – 1990
*"The Macken Charm" – 1995
*"Broken Grounds" – 1998
*"Distance" – 2003

hort stories

*"Spit Delaney's Island" –1976
*"The Barclay Family Theatre" – 1981
*"Damage Done by the Storm" – 2005

Children's literature

*"Left Behind in Squabble Bay" – 1988

where is the story "After the Season"

Non-fiction

*"Over Forty in Broken Hill" – 1992
*"A Passion for Narrative: A Guide for Writing Fiction" – 1994

External links

* [http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0003799 Jack Hodgins's] entry in [http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=HomePage&Params=A1 The Canadian Encyclopedia]