Alistair MacLeod

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July 20, 1936 in North Battleford, Saskatchewan, Canada

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When MacLeod was ten his family moved to a farm in Dunvegan, Inverness County on Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Island. After completing high school, MacLeod attended teacher's college in Truro and then taught school. He studied at St. Francis Xavier University between 1957 and 1960 and graduated with a BA and B.Ed. He then went on to receive his MA in 1961 from the University of New Brunswick and his PhD in 1968 from the University of Notre Dame. A specialist in British literature of the nineteenth century, MacLeod taught English for three years at Indiana University before accepting a post in 1969 at the University of Windsor as professor of English and creative writing. During the summer, his family resides in Cape Breton, where he spends par...more

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Books by Alistair MacLeod

Average rating: 4.02 · 2,540 ratings · 296 reviews · 12 distinct works

	No Great Mischief 3.97 avg rating — 1,855 ratings — published 1999 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Island by Alistair MacLeod, Alasta MacLeod 4.19 avg rating — 442 ratings — published 2000 — 14 editions	My rating:
	The Lost Salt Gift of Blood 4.22 avg rating — 138 ratings — published 2010 — 9 editions	My rating:
	As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories 4.30 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 1986 — 4 editions	My rating:
	To Every Thing There Is a Season: A Cape Breton Christmas Story 4.15 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2004	My rating:
	Atlantica 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2001	My rating:
	Alistair MacLeod 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2001	My rating:
	Barometer Rising by Hugh MacLennan, Alistair MacLeod 3.48 avg rating — 300 ratings — published 1941 — 7 editions	My rating:
	No Great Mischief by David Young, Alistair MacLeod (Adapted by) 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	Brigh an Orain - A Story in Every Song by Lauchie Maclellan, John Shaw, Alistair MacLeod 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2001	My rating:

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“All of us are better when we're loved.”
― Alistair MacLeod

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“And then there came into my heart a very great love for my father and I thought it was very much braver to spend a life doing what you really do not want rather than selfishly following forever your own dreams and inclinations.”
― Alistair MacLeod

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“No one has ever said that life is to be easy. Only that it is to be lived.”
― Alistair MacLeod, Island

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