Donna Morrissey

Last updated
Donna Morrissey
BornJanuary 13, 1956
The Beaches, Newfoundland
OccupationAuthor

Donna Morrissey (born January 13, 1956, The Beaches, Newfoundland) [1] is a Canadian author.

Contents

At age 16, Morrissey left The Beaches. 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.

Publications

Filmography

Awards and recognition

For Sylvanus Now:

For Downhill Chance:

For Kit's Law:

For Clothesline Patch:

For The Deception of Livvy Higgs:

For The Fortunate Brother:

References

  1. ↑ Chafe, Paul (16 December 2013). "Donna Morrissey". The Canadian Encyclopedia . Retrieved 18 March 2025.
  2. ↑ "Honoring the Best of the Best: ALA Award Winners 2002". American Libraries . 33 (8): 54–63. 2002. ISSN   0002-9769. JSTOR   25648434 . Retrieved 18 March 2025.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.