External links
- Author page at Penguin Canada
- Donna Morrissey's web page
- Donna Morrissey's entry in The Canadian Encyclopedia
- Donna Morrissey at IMDb
- Online interview from CBC Words at Large
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Donna Morrissey (born January 13, 1956, in The Beaches, Newfoundland) is a Canadian author.
At age 16, Morrissey left her birthplace of The Beaches, a small outport on the west coast of Newfoundland. She lived in various places in Canada before returning to St. John's, where she studied at Memorial University and obtained a Bachelor of Social Work and a diploma in adult education. Morrissey now lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Morrissey has written six national best sellers and prize-winning novels — Kit's Law, Downhill Chance, Sylvanus Now, What They Wanted, The Deception of Livvy Higgs, and The Fortunate Brother — as well as one Gemini-nominated screenplay. In 2021 She published a memoir, Pluck: A Memoir of a Newfoundland Childhood and the Raucous, Terrible, Amazing Journey to becoming a Novelist.
Morrissey defended Frank Parker Day's novel Rockbound in Canada Reads 2005 . Rockbound eventually won the competition. In the 2007 edition of Canada Reads, an "all-star" competition pitting the five winning advocates from previous years against each other, Morrissey returned to champion Anosh Irani's novel The Song of Kahunsha .
Morrissey had a double mastectomy due to breast cancer,
nominated for Gemini for Best Writing
nominated Best Writing
For "The Fortunate Brother":
Winner of the Thomas Head Raddall Award
Winner of Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Book of 2017
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