Barbara Gowdy was born in 1950 in Windsor, Ontario and grew up in Don Mills. She attended York University and the Royal Conservatory of Music and worked as an editor before devoting herself to writing full-time.

Books by Barbara Gowdy

	1988 Through the Green Valley
	1989 Falling Angels
	1995 Mister Sandman
	1996 We So Seldom Look on Love
	1998 The White Bone
	2003 The Romantic
	2007 Helpless
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Awards

• Giller Prize
  • 1995 – Mister Sandman – Shortlisted
  • 1998 – The White Bone – Shortlisted

• Governor General's Literary Award: Fiction
  • 1995 – Mister Sandman – Shortlisted
  • 1998 – The White Bone – Shortlisted
  • 2007 – Helpless – Shortlisted

• Marian Engel Award
  • 1996 – Winner

• Order of Canada
  • 2006 – Member

• Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
  • 1998 – The White Bone – Shortlisted
  • 2003 – The Romantic – Shortlisted

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Added 14 November 2005.
Updated 07 January 2012.