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Greg Hollingshead was born in 1947 in Toronto, Ontario. He grew up in Woodbridge and graduated from the University of Toronto with a BA in English in 1968. He received an MA in English from the University of Toronto and a PhD from the University of London. Hollingshead has published several dozen stories and essays in Canada and internationally. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Alberta and directs writing programs for the Banff Centre.

Books by Greg Hollingshead

	1982 Famous Players
	1992 White Buick
	1992 Spin Dry
	1995 The Roaring Girl
	1998 The Healer A journalist arrives in a mining town in Northern Ontario to investigate a reputed healer.
	2004 Bedlam James Tilly Matthews has been locked up in a home for the insane. His wife wants him out; the hospital's chief administrator does not.
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Awards

• Books in Canada First Novel Award
  • 1992 – Spin Dry – Shortlisted

• Giller Prize
  • 1998 – The Healer – Shortlisted

• Governor General's Literary Award: Fiction
  • 1995 – The Roaring Girl – Winner

• Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
  • 1998 – The Healer – Winner

Links

• Official site

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Added 14 November 2005.
Updated 13 April 2013.