Marni Jackson | |
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Nationality | Canadian |
Occupation(s) | journalist and writer |
Marni Jackson is a Canadian journalist. [1] She is most noted for her 1992 memoir The Mother Zone, which was a shortlisted finalist for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour in 1993, [2] and her 2002 non-fiction book Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign, which was shortlisted for the Pearson Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction. [3]
A writer for publications such as Rolling Stone , Maclean's , Saturday Night and The Walrus , Jackson has also published the non-fiction book Home Free: The Myth of the Empty Nest (2010), [4] and the short story collection Don't I Know You? (2016). She was a cohost of TVOntario's literary talk show Imprint from 1995 to 1997. [5]
Jackson is married to journalist and filmmaker Brian D. Johnson, [6] and was credited as a co-writer of his 2015 documentary film Al Purdy Was Here . [7]
In December 2014 Maclean's magazine published Jackson's account of harassment she experienced from her co-host, Hargurchet Singh Bhabra. Jackson and Bhabra had been co-hosts of a show on books, entitled Imprint , during its first season, in 1994. [8] Jackson felt her complaints over Bhabra's harassment were not taken seriously. Both she and Bhabra were replaced for the second season. Bhabra committed suicide three years later. [9] [10]
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Then one day when everyone else had left the office he said, 'You know Marni, I'm very grateful there's a wall between our offices, because otherwise I should find it difficult not to throw myself at you.' (Yes, he really did talk like that.) I felt off-balance. This was not a compliment, I realized, it was more like a threat. I told him that his remarks were inappropriate and asked him to stop.
'He tells her everything was a lie,' said a friend who read Bhabra's letter. 'He tells her he was not a legal immigrant. That there is no book [the writer was working on a trilogy with Doubleday] no publisher, no money. That he failed at everything and everybody. And that he's sorry, but he has to go.'