Claire Mowat

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Claire Mowat
BornClaire Angel Wheeler
(1933-02-05) 5 February 1933 (age 91)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
OccupationAuthor, environmentalist, philanthropist
LanguageEnglish
Education Graphic designer
Alma mater Havergal College,
Ontario College of Art & Design
Period1983 – present
Genre Memoir, young adult fiction
Notable worksThe Outport People
Spouse Farley Mowat
Relatives Angus McGill Mowat

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

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Personal life

Born on February 5, 1933, Mowat (née Wheeler) was raised and educated in Toronto, Ontario. She graduated from Havergal College and the Ontario College of Art & Design as a Graphic designer and was married to the late author Farley Mowat. [1] [2] The couple divided their time between Ontario, and Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.

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] 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, describes the couple's life in the Magdalen Islands, following the still-birth of their only child. [3] 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).

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 "Claire Mowat". Writers' Union of Canada . Retrieved 2014-05-23.
  3. 1 2 Robertson, Patricia (2009-04-07). "Claire Mowat, Farley's Boswell". The Globe and Mail . Retrieved 2009-07-11. [Originally published 2005-10-15].