Leon Rooke

Leon Rooke was born in 1934 in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina. He moved to Victoria, British Columbia in 1969 and then to Ontario in 1987. Rooke has taught English and creative writing at several universities and lives in Eden Mills, Ontario.

Books by Leon Rooke

	1968 Last One Home Sleeps in the Yellow Bed (short stories and novella)
	1973 Vault (short stories)
	1973 Krokodile (play)
	1974 Sword/Play (play)
	1977 The Broad Back of the Angel (short stories)
	1977 The Love Parlour (short stories)
	1980 Cry Evil (short stories)
	1980 Fat Woman (novel)
	1981 Death Suite (short stories)
	1981 The Magician in Love (novel)
	1983 Shakespeare's Dog (novel)
	1982 The Birth Control King of the Upper Volta (short stories)
	1984 Sing Me No Love Songs I'll Say You No Prayers: Selected Stories (short stories)
	1984 A Bolt of White Cloth (short stories)
	1984 Ms. America (play)
	1989 How I Saved the Province (short stories and novella)
	1989 A Good Baby (novel)
	1991 Daddy Stump (short story)
	1991 The Happiness of Others (short stories and novella)
	1991 The Coming (play)
	1992 Who Do You Love? (short stories)
	1993 The Boy from Moogradi and the Woman with the Map to Kolooltopec (short story)
	1995 Muffins (short story)
	1996 Oh, No, I Have Not Seen Molly (chapbook)
	1997 Art. Three Fictions in Prose (short stories)
	1997 Oh! Twenty-seven Stories (short stories and novella)
	1998 Who Goes There (novel)
	2000 The Fall of Gravity (novel)
	2001 Painting the Dog: The Best Stories of Leon Rooke (short stories)
	2005 Balduchi's Who's Who (novella)
	2005 Hot Poppies (poetry)
	2005 The Beautiful Wife (novel)

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