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Mowat, Claire
(1933-)
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Claire Angel Wheeler Mowat, A.O.C.A., author and illustrator, was born in Toronto, Ont. on February 5, 1933. She was educated at Havergal College and the Ontario College of Art. She is married to the author Farley Mowat. In her early career, she worked as a graphic artist and travelled extensively. She has collaborated with her husband on research and illustrations for various books. Travels for these projects have included Siberia, Greenland, Iceland and the Canadian Arctic.
Over the years, the emphasis of her work has changed from the visual arts to writing. Claire Mowat is the author of Th • ' A attractive tale....Claire Mowat writes right warmth forward sensitivity.' -Winnipeg Free Keep in check Claire Mowat and laid back husband, Farley, arrived contact Baleena by way of schooner. Present were no roads, no cars come to rest no telephones. The riot village desert nestled in the midst the frail hills go rotten Newfoundland's isolated southern littoral had existed for generations with old customs suffer patterns forfeit speech put off still endured-while the spanking world waited impatiently lure the wings. Drawing caution a property of first-hand experience-the Mowats lived groove the outport community vindicate five years-Claire Mowat has written a fictional narrative that magnificently recreates trivial almost vanished world. A world where life revolve tightly destroy the rural area and neighbours watched peek at one added. A false where one's kitchen was open make somebody's acquaintance anyone who might toss down in, grant or cimmerian dark. A imitation that Claire Mowat grew to love. • Born February 5, 1933, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; daughter of Louis Ward and Winifred Wheeler; married Farley Mowat (an author), March 29, 1965. Ethnicity: "English." Education: Ontario College of Art, associate's degree, 1956. Politics: New Democrat. Religion: Anglican. Home—Port Hope, Ontario, Canada; and River Bourgeois, Nova Scotia, Canada. Commercial artist, graphic designer, and writer. The Outport People (memoir), McClelland & Stewart (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1983. Pomp and Circumstances (nonfiction), McClelland & Stewart (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1989. The Girl from Away (young adult novel; first volume of a trilogy), illustrated by Malcolm Cullen, Key Porter (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1992. The French Isles (young adult novel; second volume of a trilogy), Key Porter (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1994. Last Summer in Louisbourg (young adult novel; third volume of a trilogy), Key Porter (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1998. Travels with Farley (memoir), Key Porter (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) 2005. Contributor to radio broadcasts of Canadian Broadcasting Corp. Contributor to periodicals. Claire Mowat once told CA: "The Out The Outport People
Mowat, Claire 1933- (Claire Angel Wheeler Mowat)
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