More Resources
Organizations for Writers
Other Market Listings
Other Online Resources

Your Writing Life
Frequently Addressed Queries
Issues of Interest to Writers
How to Submit Your Work
Where to Submit Your Work

Programs
Writers in the Schools
Mentorship

Competitions
Atlantic Writing Competition
WFNS Book Prizes
Canadian Book Prizes

WFNS Links
Nova Scotia Writers
Nova Scotia Illustrators
Workshops at the Fed
Eastword Newsletter
WFNS Forum

 

J.A. Wainwright

Book Covers

Contact Information

Email:
c/o Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia

Last Updated

Writers' Directory

← Return to Writers' Directory

J.A. (Andrew) Wainwright

Brief Biography

Andrew was born in Toronto and has lived in NS since 1972. He is McCulloch Emeritus Professor in English, with a speciality in Canadian literature. His influences include Patrick White, Lawrence Durrell, and Bob Dylan. He has received Canada Council grants for poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. He lives in Halifax with his wife Marjorie Stone and his son Christopher.

Selected List of Publications
  • Blazing Figures: A Life of Robert Markle. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, October 2009. ISBN 978-1-55458-182-5.
  • Click here for more information.
  • The Confluence.. Mosaic Press, 2007. ISBN 0-88962-847-2.
  • "He evokes the wartime French countryside so surely...that one feels confident, as one does with only the best historical novels, that this is exactly how it must have been." - The Antigonish Review.
  • Click here for more information.
  • Every Grain of Sand: Canadian Perspectives on Ecology and Environment. Editor. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2004. ISBN 0-88920-453-5.
  • Click here for more information.
  • A Far Time. Oakville, Ontario: Mosaic Press, 2001. ISBN 0-88962-756-4.
  • "...a haunting and intriguing study of the creative impulse. " - The Fiddlehead
  • A Deathful Ridge: A Novel of Everest. Oakville, Ontario: Mosaic Press, 1997.
  • "Wainwright may well be the most significant creative chronicler of expedition currently writing in Canada." - University of Toronto Quarterly
  • A Very Large Soul: Selected Letters from Margaret Laurence to Canadian Writers. Cormorant Books, 1995. ISBN 0-920953-87-5.
  • Landscape and Desire: Poems Selected and New. Oakville, Mosaic Press, 1992.
  • World Enough and Time: Charles Bruce, A Literary Biography. Halifax, Formac, 1988. ISBN 0-88780-064-5.
  • Flight of the Falcon: Scott's Journey to the South Pole 1910-1912. Oakville, Mosaic Press, 1987. ISBN 0-88962-355-4. (poetry)
  • After the War. Oakville, Mosaic Press, 1981. ISBN 0-88962-147-0. (poetry)
  • The Requiem Journals. Fredericton, Fiddlehead Press (now Goose Lane Editions), 1976. ISBN 0-91919793-0. (poetry)
  • Moving Outward. Toronto, New Press, 1970. ISBN 0-88770-023-3. (poetry)