D. R. MacDonald | |
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| Born | David R. MacDonald 1939 (age 84–85) Boularderie, Nova Scotia |
| Occupation | Novelist, short story writer |
| Nationality | Canadian-American |
| Period | 1980s–present |
| Notable works | Cape Breton Road, Lauchlin of the Bad Heart |
D. R. MacDonald is the pen name of David R. MacDonald, a Canadian-American writer who publishes novels and short stories.[1] Born on Boularderie Island, Nova Scotia and raised in Ohio, he is a professor emeritus of creative writing at Stanford University.[2] He still spend summers at the family homestead in Cape Breton Island, which he purchased in 1971, and his fiction is set in Cape Breton.[1]
His novel Lauchlin of the Bad Heart was a longlisted nominee for the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2007.