Joan Barfoot

Isla Duncan (University of Chichester)
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Joan Barfoot was born in 1946 on Owen Sound, a small city on the northern shores of Lake Huron, in Ontario, Canada. After graduating in 1969 with a degree in English from the University of Western Ontario, she worked for various local and national newspapers before establishing her career as a writer, in the early 80s. Until a few years ago, Barfoot wrote weekly current affairs columns for the

London Free Press

(London, Ontario) and taught both journalisms and creative writing classes at her old university. Her first novel,

Abra

(1978), published in Britain and USA as

Gaining Ground

(1980), won the

Books in Canada

First Novel Award; her second novel,

Dancing in the Dark

(1982) was made into a successful film and screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 1986.

Barfoot is, in 2008, the author

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Citation: Duncan, Isla . "Joan Barfoot". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 06 April 2008 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5312, accessed 19 March 2024.]

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