Mary lawson author biography worksheets
Mary lawson author biography worksheets
Mary lawson author biography.
Canadian novelist.
Born 1946
Mary Lawson was born and brought up in the small farming community of Blackwell, near Sarnia, Ontario. Her family had a summer cottage in northern Ontario, in an area of lakes and rocks and forests known as the Canadian Shield.
It remains, Lawson says, her favourite landscape, and it has played a major role in her writing.
After graduating from McGill University in Montreal she went to England for a holiday, ran out of money, had to find a job, fell in love with a colleague and married him.
They have two sons and live in Kingston upon Thames, near London.
Lawson began writing when her children went to school. For some years she dabbled with short stories, which she sold to women’s magazines, but it wasn’t until she set one of those stories in Canada and was advised by an editor to turn it into a novel that she finally found her voice and discovered what she wanted to write about.
Crow Lake, her first novel, published when Lawson was 55, sold in 28