
Shadow maker: the life of Gwendolyn MacEwen
Award winning fiction, Award winning non-fiction, Biography, Literature biography, Women biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction
Human-narrated audio, Automated braille
Summary
Using the personal impressions of the poet's intimate friends, Rosemary Sullivan builds a composite portrait of Gwendolyn MacEwan, the Toronto poet who died in 1987 at the age of 46. The daughter of an alcoholic father and mentally ill mother,… MacEwen's story is a painful one, yet the richness of her art and inner life redeemed the pain. Winner of the 1995 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction.