Anne Michaels: Quick Facts

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Born	April 15, 1958 (age 68) • Toronto • Canada
Awards And Honors	Women’s Prize for Fiction (1997)
Notable Works	“All We Saw” • “Correspondences” • “Fugitive Pieces” • “Miner’s Pond” • “The Weight of Oranges” • “The Winter Vault”

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Al Purdy

Canadian author

Margaret Atwood smiling at the camera, wearing a red scarf with butterfly patterns and a black top, in front of an orange background with inspirational words.

Margaret Atwood

Canadian author

Anne Carson

Anne Carson

Canadian poet

Michael Ondaatje

Michael Ondaatje

Canadian writer

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Sue Goyette

Canadian poet and novelist

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Susan Musgrave

American-born author

Isabella Valancy Crawford, lithograph

Isabella Valancy Crawford

Canadian poet

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Earle Birney

Canadian writer and educator

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James Crerar Reaney

Canadian writer

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John Glassco

Canadian author

William Kirby.

William Kirby

Canadian writer

Robert W. Service

Robert W. Service

Canadian writer

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Martha Ostenso

Canadian author

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Lisa Robertson

Canadian poet and essayist

Michael Ignatieff

Michael Ignatieff

Canadian political leader

Alice Munro

Alice Munro

Canadian author

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Thomas King

American-born Canadian writer and photographer

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Alistair MacLeod

Canadian author and educator

Hébert, Anne

Anne Hébert

Canadian poet and novelist

Pratt, E.J.

E.J. Pratt

Canadian poet

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:

Poetry: First Lines

4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul

Famous Poets and Poetic Form

Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry

A Study of Poetry