- Pat Capponi
Pat Capponi (born 1949) is a Canadian author and an advocate for
mental health issues andpoverty issues in Canada. She lives in Toronto. Her works include several nonfiction titles and a mystery novel series.She has also served as a board member at the
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto and as a member of theAdvocacy Commission in Ontario.Awards
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Order of Ontario
*C. M. Hincks Award from theCanadian Mental Health Association Reviews
*"I think the member should take the opportunity to read the book by Pat Capponi -- I say this once more -- Upstairs in the Crazy House. I think you'll find it instructive." Stephen Owens (Scarborough Centre) speaking in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, May 16, 1994 [ [http://www.ontla.on.ca/hansard/house_debates/35_parl/session3/l130.htm Ontario Hansard, May 16, 1994] ]
*http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20060415.BKMAYH15/TPStory/SpecialEvents/columnists The Globe and Mail, April 15, 2006 "Last Stop Sunnyside, by Pat Capponi, HarperCollins", reviewed by Margaret Cannon]Bibliography
*"Upstairs in the Crazy House" Toronto : Viking, 1992. ISBN 0-670-83898-5
*"Dispatches from the Poverty Line" Toronto : Penguin, 1997. 194 p. ; 22 cm. ISBN 0-14-026233-4
*"The War at Home" Toronto: Viking, 1999. ISBN 0-670-88244-5
*"Beyond the Crazy House: changing the future of madness" Toronto : Penguin Canada, 2003. xvii, 238 p. ; 22 cm. ISBN 0-14-100510-6
*"Last Stop Sunnyside" (2006) Toronto : HarperCollins, c2006. 237 p. ; 22 cm. ISBN 0-00-639412-4 ISBN 978-0-00-639412-9
*"The Corpse Will Keep" (2008) Toronto : HarperCollins, c2008. 300 p. ; 22cm. ISBN 978-55-468100-6
*"Bound by duty : walking the beat with Canada's cops"
**(Hardcover edition) Toronto : Viking, 2000. 212 p. ; 22 cm. ISBN 0-670-88931-8
**(Paperback edition)Toronto : Penguin, 2001, c2000. 212 p. ; 22 cm. ISBN 0-14-028887-2References
External links
* [http://www.patcapponi.ca/ Author website]
* [http://www.harpercollins.ca/global_scripts/product_catalog/author_xml.asp?authorid=CA57713 HarperCollins Canada]
* [http://www.harpercollins.ca/trailers/trailer0006394124.html Video trailer] for "Last Stop Sunnyside"
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