Mary lawson author biography format
Mary lawson author biography.
Mary lawson author biography format
Mary Lawson (novelist)
Canadian novelist
Mary Lawson | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1946 (age 78–79) Blackwell, Ontario, Canada |
| Pen name | Mary Lawson |
| Occupation | Psychologist, novelist |
Mary Lawson (born 1946) is a Canadian novelist best known for her award-winning novel Crow Lake (2002), and her Booker Prize longlisted novels The Other Side of the Bridge and A Town Called Solace.
Biography
Born in southwestern Ontario, she spent her childhood in Blackwell, Ontario, and is a distant relative of L. M. Montgomery, author of Anne of Green Gables. Her father worked as a research chemist.
With a psychology degree in hand from McGill University, Lawson took a trip to Britain and ended up accepting a job as an industrial psychologist. She married a British psychologist, Richard Mobbs. Lawson spent her summers in the north, and the landscape inspired her to use Northern Ontario as her settings for both her novels.[1] Lawson later admitted that Muskoka, where