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Alexandra Shimo

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Toronto, Canada
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Nonfiction, Memoir

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Joseph Boyden, Barbara Gowdy, Alice Munro, T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Jef ...more

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Alexandra Shimo studied at Oxford (Politics, Philosophy and Economics) and did a Master's in journalism at Columbia before she went to work as a producer for the CBC and an editor at Maclean's. An award-winning journalist, she lives in Toronto. ...more

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