Leon Rooke

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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)
The Happiness of Others
1991
The Happiness of Others (short stories and novella)
1991
The Coming (play)
Who Do You Love?
1992
Who Do You Love? (short stories)
1993
The Boy from Moogradi and the Woman with the Map to Kolooltopec (short story)
Muffins
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)
Who Goes There
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)
Hot Poppies
2005
Hot Poppies (poetry)
2005
The Beautiful Wife (novel)
2007
Hitting the Charts
Selected Stories
2009
The Last Shot
Eleven Stories and a Novella
2010
Pope And Her Lady
2012
Wide World in Celebration and Sorrow
Acts of Kamikaze Fiction
2013
The April Poems
 
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Added 12 March 2006.
Updated 18 May 2013.