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Sheldon Currie was born in Reserve Mines, Cape Breton, and often draws from the mining experience in his writing. His novel, The Glace Bay Miners' Museum, was adapted for film under the title Margaret's Museum, which won international accolades, and was also the basis of a CBC radio play by Wendy Lill. A recent stage adaptation of his novel, The Company Store, concluded runs in theatres across Canada just last year.
After a short spell in the RCAF and several jobs, Sheldon attended the University College of Cape Breton and St. Francis Xavier University. He did post-graduate work at the University of New Brunswick and the University of Alabama before starting to teach in high schools, and subsequently at St. Francis Xavier University. Sheldon is now retired from teaching and writes full-time.
- Lauchie, Liza and Rory . (a play). Winnipeg, J. Gordon Shillingford (Scirocco Drama), 2004.
- Down the Coaltown Road. Key Porter Fiction, 2002. ISBN 1-55263-482-5.
- Nominated for the 2003 Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction.
- "The Glace Bay Miner's Museum." Atlantica: Stories from the Maritimes and Newfoundland. Lesley Choyce, Ed. Goose Lane Editions, 2001. ISBN 0-8692-309-0.
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- The Story So Far. Breton Books, 1997. ISBN 1-895415-21-7.
- "One must recognize Currie's command of vernacular [...] his potentially allegorical plots and characters, and his powers of description." - "Currie proves mastery of form." George Elliott Clarke. The Sunday Herald, 21 June 1998.
- The Glace Bay Miners' Museum - The Novel. Wreck Cove, Cape Breton, Breton Books, 1995. ISBN 1-895415-05-5.
- The Company Store. Ottawa, Oberon Press, 1988.
- "As The Company Store is currently constituted, one can read it from beginning to end as a traditional novel or one can open the volume at almost any chapter and experience the sort of intensely realized and self-contained world that one associates with the offerings of Alice Munro." - from "The Company Store." Review by Alistair MacLeod. The Antigonish Review, No. 76, Winter 1989.
- The Glace Bay Miners' Museum. (Collection of short stories). Montreal, Deluge Press, 1979.
