Education
Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, she studied English and Theatre at the University of British Columbia.
Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, she studied English and Theatre at the University of British Columbia.
From 1962 to 1972, she lived in London, England. Formentera, Spain; and New York City. She now lives in Telkwa, British Columbia above the Widzin"kwa River.
Literary Please, Mission, Can I Play God? Notes and Sketches based on an adventure in dramatic play.
Methuen, London, 1966. Bobbs-Merrill, New York City, 1966.
Joan Haggerty’s first book is an early 1960’s exploration of creative drama in an east end London, England elementary school. As a young teacher, she discovers that children learn best through play.
By acting out their interpretations of the classics and developing their own dramas, they come to embrace the institutions of theatre as their own.
Daughters of the Moon. Bobbs-Merrill, New York City, 1971. lieutenant begins with the first contraction and ends with the birth.
The Invitation: A Memoir of Family Love and Reconciliation.
Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver/Toronto, 1994. The Dancehall Years. Mother Tongue Publishing Limited., Saltspring Island, British Columbia To be published in June, 2016.
Both an epic adventure and an interracial drama, this complex family saga begins one summer on Bowen Island and in Vancouver during the Depression and moves through Pearl Harbour, the evacuation of the Japanese and three generations into the 1980s.
Secretariat in Spain and England, Daughters of the Moon is a novel told from the point of view of a woman in labour.