Background
Greg Hollingshead was born on February 25, 1947, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is the son of Albert Hollingshead, a clothier, and Joyce (McGlashan) Hollingshead, an office clerk.
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
University of Toronto
London, United Kingdom
University of London
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
University of Alberta
Banff, Alberta, Canada
Banff Centre
Order of Canada
Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
University of Toronto
London, United Kingdom
University of London
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
University of Alberta
Banff, Alberta, Canada
Banff Centre
Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal
Order of Canada
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1982
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An International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Nominee A Toronto Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year Conspiracies, plots, and paranoia are sweeping through London in the last days of the eighteenth century, and James Tilly Matthews has been caught under false pretenses and locked up in the city's vast, crumbling asylum. As his wife, Margaret, tries desperately to free him, political forces conspire to keep him locked up. Margaret's chief adversary is John Haslam, the asylum's chief apothecary, a man torn between his conscience and the lure of scientific discovery: as James becomes more famous--and more unhinged--he becomes a valuable specimen for the young doctor and a pawn in a grand political conspiracy. Based on real characters and events, Bedlam is a brilliant evocation of a city teetering between darkness and light, and a moving study of every kind of madness.
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When recently widowed journalist Tim Wakelin heads north in search of a story about a local healer named Caroline Troyer, he enters a world that is real yet strange. Familiar landmarks disappear and extraordinary events unfold as his life becomes intertwined with hers. Even the landscape itself--the ancient rocks, myriad lakes, and cathedral forests of the Canadian Shield--becomes a source of threat. How can he understand this strange and beautiful woman when he is no longer sure why he has really come or what is happening to him? And Caroline, who is aware that her ability to heal is only part of a mysterious process of transformation that she is undergoing, must break free of the chains of her abusive family. Perhaps Tim can provide the sanctuary she needs, if he has the strength to survive the violent forces unleashed by his arrival. Darkly beautiful, illuminated by flashes of wit and great lyricism, written in a compelling cadence all its own, The Healer is a work of immense power and original sensibility.
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When it first appeared in 1992, Spin Dry received ravereviews, won the Georges Bugnet Award for the Novel and was shortlisted for theSmith’s/Books in Canada First Novel Award. Set in a suburban sleepdisturbance clinic, Spin Dry follows the story of a woman who undergoesdream deprivation in order to discover the identity of a man obsessing herhusband. It’s a comic satire of husbands and wives, female friendship,daughters and mothers, obsessive love and psychological scrutiny in a suburbanage. This novel of post-war angst was the first to confirm Greg Hollingshead,one of Canada’s most original storytellers, as a virtuoso writer.
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Greg Hollingshead was born on February 25, 1947, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is the son of Albert Hollingshead, a clothier, and Joyce (McGlashan) Hollingshead, an office clerk.
Hollingshead received his bachelor's degree from the University of Toronto in 1968, as well as master's degree 2 years later. Then he graduated from the University of London as a Doctor of Philosophy in English in 1974.
Hollingshead began his career at the University of Alberta as a professor of English. He worked as a teacher of creative writing for 30 years. Hollingshead retired from teaching as emeritus in 2005. From 2000 to 2018 he was a director of the Writing Studio at the Banff Centre.
Concerning his writings, Hollingshead has said that his fiction is about people who do not see or understand “what’s there,” according to Maclean's contributor Charles Foran. A patient writer whose stories require some time to reveal their courses, Hollingshead took decades to find his voice as an author.
Famous Players was his first book. Hollingshead’s second story collection, White Buick, was lauded as “fine” and “accomplished” by Anne Denoon in Books in Canada. “Wild, weird, and wonderful” is how a Kirkus Reviews contributor perceived Hollingshead’s next story collection, The Roaring Girl.
Hollingshead won Georges Bugnet Award from Writers Guild of Alberta, and SmithBooks/BooLs in Canada First Novel Award nomination, both in 1992, and both for his Spin Dry. He also received Howard O’Hagan Award for short fiction, and Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, both in 1993, for his White Buick. He earned Governor General’s Literary Award for fiction in 1995, and Howard O’Hagan Award for short fiction in 1996, both for his The Roaring Girl.
Hollingshead also received other awards from the Writers Guild of Alberta. Among his other awards are Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Gold Medal for Excellence in the Arts. He was awarded Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012 and Writers’ Guild of Alberta Golden Pen Award for Lifetime Achievement four years later. In 2012 Hollingshead was awarded the Order of Canada.
(An International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Nominee A To...)
(When it first appeared in 1992, Spin Dry received raverev...)
(When recently widowed journalist Tim Wakelin heads north ...)
Hollingshead is a member of the Writers’ Guild of Alberta and the PEN Canada.
Hollingshead married Rosa Spricer in 1983. They have a son named David Benjamin.
