Margaret Laurence

Margaret Laurence (1926-1987), born Jean Margaret Wemyss in Neepawa, Manitoba, lost her mother at the age of four, then her father, and grew up with an aunt who became her stepmother, in the house of her maternal grandfather, which served as a model for several of her characters. Married to a hydraulic engineer, she lived from 1950 to 1957 in British Somaliland and then in the Gold Coast, which became Ghana, a stay that gave rise to her first books. Back home for good in 1973, settled in Lakefield, Ontario, and writer in residence at three universities, she was the target of school censorship campaigns.

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• NovelThe Stone AngelMargaret Laurence · 1964Literature