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J.A. Wainwright
Biography
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
J.A. Wainwright was born in Toronto, Canada. Since 1972 he has lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia where he is McCulloch Emeritus Professor in English at Dalhousie University. His areas of specialization were contemporary and Canadian literature and popular culture, including a class on Bob Dylan and literature of the 1960s.
His first novel, A Deathful Ridge: a Novel of Everest, was shortlisted for the Boardman-Tasker Prize in Mountain Literature in 1997, and his biography of painter Robert Markle, Blazing Figures, was shortlisted for the ForeWord Magazine Literary Prize in the U.S. in 2010. He has given readings from his fiction and poetry collections in Canada, the U.S.A and Europe.
Poetry Publications:
Moving Outward, Toronto: New Press, 1970
The Requiem Journals, Fredericton: Fiddlehead Books, 1976
After the War, Oakville, Mosaic Press, 1981
Flight of the Falcon: Scott’s Journey to the South Pole, Mosaic Press, 1987
Landscape and Desire: Selected Poems, Mosaic Press, 1992
Fiction Publications:
A Deathful Ridge: a Novel of Everest, Mosaic Press, 1997
A Far Time, Mosaic Press, 2001
The Confluence, Mosaic Press, 2007
Biographies:
Charles Bruce: World Enough and Time, Formac Publishing, 1988
Blazing Figures: A Life of Robert Markle, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2010
J.A. Wainwright was born in Toronto, Canada. Since 1972 he has lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia where he is McCulloch Emeritus Professor in English at Dalhousie University. His areas of specialization were contemporary and Canadian literature and popular culture, including a class on Bob Dylan and literature of the 1960s.
His first novel, A Deathful Ridge: a Novel of Everest, was shortlisted for the Boardman-Tasker Prize in Mountain Literature in 1997, and his biography of painter Robert Markle, Blazing Figures, was shortlisted for the ForeWord Magazine Literary Prize in the U.S. in 2010. He has given readings from his fiction and poetry collections in Canada, the U.S.A and Europe.
Poetry Publications:
Moving Outward, Toronto: New Press, 1970
The Requiem Journals, Fredericton: Fiddlehead Books, 1976
After the War, Oakville, Mosaic Press, 1981
Flight of the Falcon: Scott’s Journey to the South Pole, Mosaic Press, 1987
Landscape and Desire: Selected Poems, Mosaic Press, 1992
Fiction Publications:
A Deathful Ridge: a Novel of Everest, Mosaic Press, 1997
A Far Time, Mosaic Press, 2001
The Confluence, Mosaic Press, 2007
Biographies:
Charles Bruce: World Enough and Time, Formac Publishing, 1988
Blazing Figures: A Life of Robert Markle, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2010
Where to find J.A. Wainwright online
Books
The Last Artist
by J.A. Wainwright
Price:
$4.99 USD.
Words: 95,900.
Language:
English.
Published: June 15, 2016
by
CUSTOM BOOK PUBLICATIONS.
Categories:
Fiction » Alternative history, Fiction » Inspirational
Confronted by his own mortality and that of his paintings, artist Ben Sand reproduces several modern masterpieces on the walls of an isolated French cave so they will last for 20,000 years. His efforts are mirrored by those of a Paleolithic girl, An, in her own cave.
The result is enduring images of visual brilliance framed by lived experience that has its own place and longevity in time.