Elspeth Cameron

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Elspeth Cameron
Born (1943-01-10) 10 January 1943 (age 82)
Nationality Canadian
Occupation(s)Writer, poet
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Elspeth MacGregor Cameron (10 January 1943-13 August 2025) was a Canadian writer best known for her biographies of noted Canadian literary figures such as Irving Layton and Earle Birney. She was also noted for her 1997 memoir No Previous Experience, a memoir of her process of self-discovery when, having previously identified as heterosexual, she began to develop a sexual and romantic attraction to historian Janice Dickin McGinnis. [1] She also published a volume of poetry.

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She lived in St. Catharines, Ontario. Cameron has taught at Concordia University, the University of Toronto and Brock University.

Awards

Her biography of Hugh MacLennan, Hugh MacLennan: A Writer's Life, was nominated for the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction at the 1981 Governor General's Awards. [2] No Previous Experience won the W. O. Mitchell Literary Prize. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ "Out of the closet with a vengeance". Waterloo Region Record , June 14, 1997.
  2. ↑ "Gallant's collection of short stories takes fiction prize". The Globe and Mail , May 18, 1982.
  3. ↑ "Calgarians are on a roll". Calgary Herald , July 18, 1998.


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