Linda Spalding

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Linda Spalding (née Dickinson) (born 25 June 1943) is a Canadian writer and editor. Born in Topeka, Kansas the daughter of Jacob Alan Dickinson and Edith Senner, she lived in Mexico and Hawaii before moving to Toronto, Ontario in 1982.

She has two daughters, Esta and Kristin Spalding, from her first marriage to photographer Philip Spalding. Linda Spalding is currently married to Canadian novelist Michael Ondaatje; Linda, Esta and Michael are also on the editorial board of the literary magazine Brick.

Spalding has also taught creative writing at Humber College's School for Writers.

[edit] Bibliography

  • Daughters of Captain Cook (1987)
  • The Paper Wife (1994)
  • Riska (1999)
  • A Dark Place in the Jungle: Following Leakey's Last Angel into Borneo (1999)
  • The Brick Reader - (1999) (edited with Michael Ondaatje)
  • Lost Classics - (2000, Knopf Canada; ISBN 0-676-97299-3) (edited with Michael Redhill, Esta Spalding and Michael Ondaatje)
  • Who Named The Knife (2005)
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