Claire Mowat

Claire Mowat
Claire Mowat
Born February 5, 1933 (1933-02-05) (age 78)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Occupation Novelist
Nationality Canadian
Education Graphic designer
Alma mater Havergal College
Ontario College of Art & Design
Period 1983 – present
Genres Memoir, Young-adult fiction
Spouse(s) Farley Mowat

Claire Angel Mowat (born 5 February 1933)[1] is a Canadian writer.

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Personal life

Mowat was born and educated in Toronto, Ontario. She graduated from Havergal College and the Ontario College of Art & Design as a Graphic designer and is married to author Farley Mowat.[1][2] The couple split their time between Port Hope, Ontario, and the Cape Breton community of River Bourgeois, Nova Scotia.[3]

Career

Mowat began writing memoirs in the 1960s, leading in 1983 to her first book The Outport People,[2] about the five years she and husband Farley spent at the start of their marriage in the outport Newfoundland community of Burgeo.[3][4] Her second book Pomp and Circumstances (1989) arose from witnessing protocol behind the scenes at the Governor General's residence Rideau Hall in Ottawa.[2] A 2005 memoir Travels with Farley: A Memoir describes the couple's life in the Magdalen Islands, following the still-birth of their only child.[3][4] She has also written a trilogy of young-adult fiction: The Girl from Away (1992), The French Isles (1994) and Last Summer in Louisbourg (1998).

Selected bibliography

  • Mowat, Claire A (1983). The Outport People. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. ISBN 9780771065491. OCLC 9810546. 
  • Mowat, Claire A (1989). Pomp and Circumstances. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. ISBN 9780771065484. OCLC 19514006. 
  • Mowat, Claire A (1992). The Girl from Away. Illustrated by Malcolm Cullen. Toronto: Key Porter Books. ISBN 9781550134285. OCLC 30359003. 
  • Mowat, Claire A (1994). The French Isles. Illustrated by Huntley Brown. Toronto: Key Porter Books. ISBN 9781550135916. OCLC 30667474. 
  • Mowat, Claire A (1998). Last Summer in Louisbourg. Toronto: Key Porter Books. ISBN 9781550139419. OCLC 37993166. 
  • Mowat, Claire A (2005). Travels with Farley. Toronto: Key Porter Books. ISBN 9781552637142. OCLC 60416207. 

References

  1. ^ a b "Mowat, Claire". The William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections. McMaster University. 2006-12-08. http://library.mcmaster.ca/archives/findaids/fonds/m/mowatc.htm. Retrieved 2009-07-11. 
  2. ^ a b c "Claire Mowat". Writers' Union of Canada. http://www.writersunion.ca/ww_profile.asp?mem=834&L=. Retrieved 2009-07-11. 
  3. ^ a b c "Travels with Farley: A Memoir". Biography & Autobiography. Key Porter Books. http://www.keyporter.com/BookDetail.aspx?ISBN=155263714X. Retrieved 2009-07-11. 
  4. ^ a b Robertson, Patricia (2009-04-07). "Claire Mowat, Farley's Boswell". The Globe and Mail. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/archives/claire-mowat-farleys-boswell/article892802/. Retrieved 2009-07-11.  [Originally published 2005-10-15].



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