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Ann-Marie MacDonald
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October 29, 1958
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female
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Baden-Baden, Germany
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Ann-Marie MacDonald is a Canadian playwright, novelist, actor and broadcast journalist who lives in Toronto, Ontario. The daughter of a member of Canada's military, she was born at an air force base near Baden-Baden, West Germany.
MacDonald won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for her first novel, Fall on Your Knees, which was also named to Oprah Winfrey's Book Club.
She received the Governor General's Award for Literary Merit, the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award and the Canadian Author's Association Award for her play, Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet).
She also appeared in the films I've Heard the Mermaids Singing and Better Than Chocolate, among others.
Her 2003 novel, The Way the C...more
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Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald avg rating 3.83 — 4,873 ratings — published 1996 34 editions |
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The Way the Crow Flies: A Novel by Ann-Marie MacDonald avg rating 3.96 — 1,762 ratings — published 2003 17 editions |
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Goodnight Desdemona by Ann-Marie MacDonald avg rating 3.57 — 99 ratings — published 1990 5 editions |
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Belle Moral by Ann-Marie MacDonald avg rating 3.40 — 5 ratings — published 2005 2 editions |
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The Arab's Mouth by Ann-Marie MacDonald avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 1998 |
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Way the Crow Flies by Ann-Marie MacDonald avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2004 |
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Way the Crow Flies by Ann-Marie MacDonald avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2003 |
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Le vol du corbeau by Ann-Marie MacDonald, Lori Saint-Martin, Paul Gagné avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2005 |
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Der Erste Weltkrieg und das 20. Jahrhundert. by Ann-Marie MacDonald avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2002 |
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Fall on Knees Read. Guide by Ann-Marie MacDonald avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1997 2 editions |
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"Hope is a gift. You can't choose to have it. To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain."
— Ann-Marie MacDonald (Fall On Your Knees)
— Ann-Marie MacDonald (Fall On Your Knees)
"Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable."
— Ann-Marie MacDonald (Fall On Your Knees)
— Ann-Marie MacDonald (Fall On Your Knees)
"There are some stories you can't hear enough. They are the same every time you hear them. But you are not. That's one reliable way of understanding time."
— Ann-Marie MacDonald (The Way the Crow Flies: A Novel)
— Ann-Marie MacDonald (The Way the Crow Flies: A Novel)
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