From a High Thin Wire

Joan Clark is one of Canada's most distinguished authors. In 1982, From a High Thin Wire launched her career as a writer of adult fiction, although she had already won wide praise as a children's novelist. Born in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, Clark grew up in Sydney Mines, Cape Breton, and taught in Sussex, New Brunswick. She lived for many years in Calgary, where she began to make her mark as a writer and where, with Edna Alford, she founded Dandelion, Alberta's first literary magazine. Since the mid-1980s, she has made her home in St. John's, Newfoundland. Clark's books have been translated into French, German, Swedish and Danish. For her children's fiction, she has received the Geoffrey Bilson Award and the Mr. Christie Award. She is the author of three novels and two story collections. Her first novel, The Victory of Geraldine Gull won the Canadian Authors' Association Award for Fiction and was a finalist for the Governor General's Award and the W.H. Smith / Books in Canada First Novel Award. Her most recent novel, Latitudes of Melt, was a finalist for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book (Canada and Caribbean). At present, Clark is hard at work on her new novel, forthcoming in 2005.Clark, Joan is the author of 'From a High Thin Wire', published 2004 under ISBN 9780864923851 and ISBN 0864923856.