(Margaret Redmond, who dies at seventeen, finds that to ga...)
Margaret Redmond, who dies at seventeen, finds that to gain understanding of self and to overcome a deep hatred that has marred her last years she must relive parts of her earlier lives on earth.
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In 1972 and Doctor of Philosophy in 1977, both from McMaster University.
At age 18 she wrote her first novel to be published, A Walk Out of the World. That young-adult fantasy was published by Longmans in Canada and Harcourt Brace in America with illustrations by Trina Schart Hyman, when Nichols was 20 or 21. She received her Bachelor of Arts in religious studies from the University of British Columbia, and her Master of Arts She lectured for several years at Carleton University in Ottawa.
Nichols married William Norman Houston in September 1974.
They initially lived in Ottawa and then moved to Toronto. Despite having experienced success early in life, Nichols" writing career did not flourish.
Her last published novel was historical fiction, "What Dangers Deep", set in the Elizabethan era and was poorly received as it was outside her genre of children"s literature. After divorcing in 1998, health problems, including epilepsy, forced Nichols to live in a chronic care facility in Toronto.
(Margaret Redmond, who dies at seventeen, finds that to ga...)