Photo: George Georgakakos

Lesley Choyce was born on 21 March 1951 in rural New Jersey. He earned a B.A. from Rutgers University in 1972, an M.A. in American literature from Montclair State College in 1974, and an M.A. in English literature from City University of New York in 1983. Choyce moved to Nova Scotia in 1979 and started Pottersfield Press. He teaches part-time at Dalhousie University and hosts a nationally syndicated TV talk show in Halifax. Choyce lives in Lawrencetown Beach.

Books by Lesley Choyce

	1977 Edible Wild Plants of the Maritimes (non-fiction)
	1980 Re-inventing the Wheel (poetry)
	1981 Eastern Sure (novel)
	1982 Fast Living
	1984 Billy Botzweiler's Last Dance (short stories)
	1984 Downwind (novel)
	1985 Conventional Emotions (short stories)
	1985 The End of Ice
	1986 The Dream Auditor (science fiction)
	1986 The Top of the Heart (poetry)
	1987 An Avalanche of Ocean (non-fiction)
	1988 Beautiful Sadness (poetry)
	1988 Coming Up for Air (novel)
	1988 December Six / The Halifax Solution (non-fiction)
	1988 The Man Who Borrowed the Bay of Fundy (poetry)
	1989 The Second Season of Jonas MacPherson (novel)
	1989 Skateboard Shakedown (young adult)
	1990 Hungry Lizards (young adult)
	1990 Skate Freaks Og Graesrodder (young adult)
	1990 Wave Watch (young adult)
	1991 Magnificent Obsessions (photo-novel)
	1991 Some Kind of Hero (young adult)
	1991 Wrong Time, Wrong Place (young adult)
	1992 Clearcut Danger (young adult)
	1992 Margin of Error (short stories)
	1992 Ecstasy Conspiracy (novel)
	1993 Full Tilt (young adult)
	1993 Transcendental Anarchy (autobiography)
	1993 Good Idea Gone Bad (young adult) also published as Gone Bad
	1994 The Republic of Nothing (novel)
	1994 Dark End of Dream Street (young adult) also published as Hell's Hotel
	1995 Big Burn (young adult)
	1995 The Coastline of Forgetting (poetry)
	1996 Falling Through the Cracks (young adult) also published as Last Chance (2009)
	1996 Nova Scotia: Shaped By the Sea (history)
	1996 The Trap Door To Heaven (science fiction)
	1997 Couleurs Troubles (young adult)
	1997 Dance The Rocks Ashore (short stories)
	1997 Go For It Carrie (children)
	1998 Carrie's Crowd (children)
	1998 Famous At Last (children)
	1998 World Enough (novel)
	1999 Roid Rage (young adult)
	1999 The Summer of Apartment X (novella)
	2000 Caution to the Wind (poetry)
	2000 Far Enough Island (children)
	2001 Carrie's Camping Adventure (children)
	2001 Cold Clear Morning (novel)
	2002 The Coasts of Canada (history)
	2002 Refuge Cove (young adult)
	2002 Shoulder the Sky (novel)
	2003 Sea of Tranquility (novel)
	2003 Typographical Eras (poetry)
	2004 Revenge of the Optimist (poetry)
	2004 Smoke and Mirrors (young adult)
	2004 Thunderbowl (young adult)
	2005 Sudden Impact (young adult)
	2006 Deconstructing Dylan (young adult)
	2006 Driving Minnie's Piano: Memoirs of a Surfing Life in Nova Scotia (memoir)
	2006 Skunks for Breakfast (children)
	2007 Wave Warrior (young adult)
	2007 The End of the World as We Know It (young adult)
	2008 Skate Freak (young adult)
	2008 Peggy's Cove: The Amazing History of a Coastal Village (non-fiction)
	2008 The Book of Michael (young adult)
	2009 Running the Risk (young adult)
	2009 Seven Ravens: Two summers in a life by the sea (non-fiction)
	2009 The Discipline of Ice (young adult)
	2009 Living Outside the Lines (young adult)
	2010 Raising Orion (novel)
	2010 Random (young adult)
	2010 Reckless
	2010 Reaction
	2011 Dumb Luck
	2011 How to Fix Your Head
	2012 Breaking Point
	2012 Rat
	2013 Crash
	2013 Jeremy Stone
	2013 I'm Alive. I Believe in Everything.
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Awards

• Governor General's Literary Awards: Children's Literature
  • 2014 – Jeremy Stone – Shortlisted

• Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Award: Fiction
  • 2000 – Carrie's Crowd – Shortlisted

• White Pine Award
  • 2004 – Shoulder The Sky – Shortlisted
  • 2008 – The End of the World as We Know It – Shortlisted
  • 2010 – The Book of Michael – Shortlisted

Links

• Official site
• Blog
• Pottersfield Press

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Added 28 April 2008.
Updated 20 January 2015.