Heidi L. M. Jacobs

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Heidi L. M. Jacobs is a Canadian writer, whose debut novel Molly of the Mall: Literary Lass and Purveyor of Fine Footwear won the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour in 2020. [1]

Originally from Edmonton, Alberta, [2] she is currently a librarian at the University of Windsor. [1] Molly of the Mall is based in part on her own experience as a university student in the 1990s, centred on a character balancing her studies in literature with her job at a shoe store in a fictionalized version of the West Edmonton Mall. [2] The novel was published by NeWest Press in 2019.

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