Joan Clark

Photo: Ned Pratt

Joan Clark (nee MacDonald) was born in 1934 in Liverpool, Nova Scotia and grew up there and in New Brunswick. She studied drama at Acadia University and education at the University of Alberta, then taught for several years. After more than twenty years in Alberta, Clark now lives in St. John's, Newfoundland.

Books by Joan Clark

	1968 Girl of the Rockies A girl and her pet bear grow up.
	1971 Thomasina and the Trout Tree A girl searches for a mysterious tree.
	1977 The Hand of Robin Squires (children)
	1982 From a High Thin Wire (short stories)
	1984 The Leopard and the Lily A caged leopard dreams of a lily.
	1985 Wild Man of the Woods A boy finds a Native mask which he uses to confront bullies.
	1987 The Moons of Madeleine While staying with her cousin, Madeleine discovers a parallel world.
	1988 The Victory of Geraldine Gull (novel)
	1990 Swimming Toward the Light (short stories)
	1994 Eiriksdottir A group of Greenlanders and Icelanders set out to find Vinland.
	1995 The Dream Carvers A young Greenlander is captured by Natives in the New World.
	2000 Latitudes of Melt As a baby, Aurora was found in a basket on an ice floe. Now her granddaughter wants to know how she got there.
	2002 The Word for Home
	2005 An Audience of Chairs (novel)
	2006 Snow Sammy imagines what might be under the piles of snow around his house.
	2009 Road to Bliss A fifteen-year-old boy becomes involved with a religious sect on the prairies.

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