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Baltimore's Mansion: A Memoir
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Johnston, Wayne 1958-
(Wayne Gerard Johnston)
PERSONAL: Born May 22, 1958, in Goulds, Newfoundland, Canada; son of Arthur Reginald (a civil servant) and Genevieve (a secretary; maiden name, Everard) Johnston; married Rosemarie Patricia Lang-hout (a professor of history), 1981. Education: Memorial University of Newfoundland, B.A., 1978; University of New Brunswick, M.A., 1984.
ADDRESSES: Home—148 Briar Hill Ave., Toronto, Ontario M4R 1H9, Canada. Agent—McDermid & Associates, 83 Willcocks S., Toronto, Ontario M5S 1C9, Canada.
CAREER: Writer, novelist, and journalist. St. John's Daily News, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, reporter, 1979–81; freelance writer, 1981–.
AWARDS, HONORS: First prize, Newfoundland Arts and Letters competition, 1982; W.H. Smith/Books in Canada First Novel Award, 1985, for The Story of Bobby O'Malley;Air Canada Award for Best Young Writer, 1987, for The Time of Their Lives; Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award for Best Atlantic Novel, for The Divine Ryans and for The Colony of Unrequited Dreams; Governor-General's Award nomination, Giller Prize nomination, and Canadian Authors Association Award for Fiction, all for The Colony of Unrequited Dreams.
WRITINGS:
The Story of Bobby O'Malley, Oberon Press (Ottawa, Onta
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Wayne Johnston
Born
in Goulds, Newfoundland, CanadaMay 22, 1958
Website
http://waynejohnston.ca/index.html
Genre
Fiction
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Wayne Johnston was born and raised in Goulds, Newfoundland. After a brief stint in pre-Med, Wayne obtained a BA in English from Memorial University. He worked as a reporter for the St. John's Daily News before deciding to devote himself full-time to writing.
En route to being published, Wayne earned an MA in Creative Writing from the University of New Brunswick. Then he got off to a quick start. His first book, The Story of Bobby O'Malley, published when he was 27 years old, won the WH Smith/Books in Canada First Novel award for the best first novel published in the English language in Canada in that year. The Divine Ryans was adapted to a film, for which Wayne wrote the screenplay. Baltimore's Mansion, a memoire dealing with his grandfatherWayne Johnston was born and raised in Goulds, Newfoundland. After a brief stint in pre-Med, Wayne obtained a BA in English from Memorial University. He worked as a reporter for the St. John's Daily News before deciding to devote himself full-time to writing.
En route to being published, Wayne earned an MA in Creative Writing from the University of New Brunswick. Then he got off