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

• 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
• MySpace profile
• Pottersfield Press
• Lesley Choyce and the Surf Poets

Added 28 April 2008.
Updated 28 March 2010.