Leon Rooke

Leon Rooke
Leon Rooke at the Eden Mills Writers' Festival in 2013
Rooke at the Eden Mills Writers' Festival in 2013
Born (1934-09-11) September 11, 1934 (age 90)
Notable awardsOrder of Canada
Website
www.leonrooke.ca

Leon Rooke, CM (born September 11, 1934) 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.[1] 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.[2]

  1. ^ "Artist Bios | Eden Mills Writer's Festival".
  2. ^ Order of Canada citation