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Helen Humphreys was born in 1961 in England and moved to Canada when she was a young girl. She was kicked out of high school in grade 10 and attended an alternative school to finish her education. Humphreys lives in Kingston, Ontario.

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Books by Helen Humphreys

	1986 Gods and Other Mortals (poetry)
	1990 Nuns Looking Anxious, Listening to Radios (poetry)
	1991 Ethel on Fire (novella)
	1995 The Perils of Geography (poetry)
	1998 Leaving Earth (novel)
	2000 Anthem (poetry)
	2000 Afterimage (novel)
	2002 The Lost Garden (novel) During WWII, a horticulturalist discovers a mysterious garden while working at a country estate.
	2004 Wild Dogs (novel)
	2007 The Frozen Thames (short stories)
	2008 Coventry (novel) A widow helps a young man search for his mother after their town is bombed during WWII.
	2011 The Reinvention of Love (novel)
	2013 Nocturne (memoir) On the Life and Death of My Brother
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Awards

• Canada Reads
  • 2003 – The Lost Garden – Shortlisted

• Evergreen Award
  • 2009 – Coventry – Shortlisted

• Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
  • 2000 – Afterimage – Winner

Links

• Official site

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Added 13 March 2006.
Updated 08 May 2014.