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D.R. MacDonald


Born
Boularderie, Nova Scotia, Canada
Genre
Fiction


D. R. MacDonald is a Canadian-American writer who publishes novels and short stories.

Born in Boularderie, Nova Scotia and raised in Ohio, he is a professor emeritus of creative writing at Stanford University. He still spends summers at the family homestead in Cape Breton Island, which he purchased in 1971, and his fiction is set in Cape Breton.

His novel Lauchlin of the Bad Heart was a longlisted nominee for the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2007.

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Average rating: 3.28 · 539 ratings · 108 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors
Cape Breton Road
3.29 avg rating — 255 ratings — published 2001 — 22 editions
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Anna From Away
3.11 avg rating — 197 ratings — published 2012 — 11 editions
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Lauchlin of the Bad Heart
3.72 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions
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All the Men Are Sleeping
3.58 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2002 — 7 editions
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3.60 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions
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Eyestone: Stories
3.50 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1988 — 4 editions
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