Description
Leon Rooke, CM is a Canadian novelist. He was born in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina in the United States. Educated at the University of North Carolina, he moved to Canada in 1969. He now lives in Toronto, Ontario.
Rooke helped to found the Eden Mills Writers' Festival in 1989. In 2002, Rooke championed The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence in that year's edition of Canada Reads. Rooke's work also appears in Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts. In 2007, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada.
Born
September 11th, 1934 in Roanoke Rapids (Age 90)
Films
Last Changes
2019/03/17
A Scanned Autograph has been removed
2019/03/17
A Scanned Autograph has been removed
2015/07/21
New Address: Available to members only