Linda Spalding
Linda Spalding was born in Kansas and moved to Canada in 1982. She has written four novels,
Daughters of Captain Cook,
The Paper Wife,
Mere (co-written with her daughter, Esta), and most recently,
The Purchase, for which she received the Governor General’s Award. Among her nonfiction books are
A Dark Place in the Jungle: Science, Orangutans, and Human Nature and
Who Named the Knife: A True Story of Murder and Memory. Spalding is an editor of the journal
Brick and has been awarded the Harbourfront Festival Prize for her contributions to Canadian literature.