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I’ll never forget the letter from Pierre Berton urging me to join the Writers' Union. I remember the giddy feeling of being taken for someone who might actually belong to the same club as Berton, Frye, Findley, Mitchell, and Laurence. They’re all gone now, bless them, but TWUC soldiers on. Something grand, something beyond getting that first book published: a community, a career. A life.
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Joan Skelton
“Novelist Joan Skelton (The Survivor of the Edmund Fitzgerald) was adamant about Toronto having no influence on her writing. “Although born, raised, and educated exclusively in Toronto, Joan Skelton’s spiritual home was not, and is not there. She knew from childhood she would be a writer but it was not until she moved away from the large urban setting that she found her subject matter in the people and country of northern Ontario.” Toronto, A Literary Guide, Greg Gatenby
Joan Skelton divides her time between her main residence outside Thunder Bay on the leeward end of Lake Superior and her cottage outside Sault Ste. Marie on the windward end. Her vocations have been writing and family, her avocation photography and dogs. An important interest reflected in her books and free-lance articles has always been the human relationship to the natural world. Her work-in-progress however reflects more: the humans’ relationship beyond the natural world.
