Dan Needles grew up in Ontario and worked as a newspaper editor in Shelburne. His wildly successful plays feature Walt Wingfield, a retired stockbroker turned farmer. Needles also writes for various magazines.

Books by Dan Needles

	1988 Letters From Wingfield Farm (novelization of the plays Letter From Wingfield Farm (1985), Wingfield's Progress (1987), and Wingfield's Folly (1990))
	1997 An Illustrated History: The Royal Agricultural Winter Fair (nonfiction)
	2002 With Axe and Flask (humour) The History of Persephone Township from Pre-Cambrian Times to the Present
	2005 Wingfield's Hope (novelization of the plays Wingfield Unbound (1997), Wingfield On Ice (2001), and Wingfield's Inferno (2005))
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Awards

• Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour
  • 2003 – With Axe and Flask – Winner
  • 2006 – Wingfield's Hope – Shortlisted

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Added 15 November 2005.
Updated 07 January 2012.