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Alistair MacLeod

Born

in North Battleford, Saskatchewan, Canada

July 20, 1936

Died

April 20, 2014

Genre

Fiction

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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 resided in Cape Breton, where he spent part ...more

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Average rating: 4.07 · 16,749 ratings · 1,563 reviews · 39 distinct works • Similar authors

	No Great Mischief 4.02 avg rating — 12,419 ratings — published 1999 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Island: The Complete Stories 4.19 avg rating — 2,940 ratings — published 2000 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lost Salt Gift of Blood 4.36 avg rating — 980 ratings — published 1976 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories 4.35 avg rating — 358 ratings — published 1986 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	To Every Thing There Is a Season: A Cape Breton Christmas Story by Alistair MacLeod, Peter Rankin (Illustrator) 4.19 avg rating — 344 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Remembrance 4.05 avg rating — 289 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Boat 3.97 avg rating — 74 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod (January 25,2001) 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vision 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Island liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“All of us are better when we're loved.”
― 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: Collected Stories

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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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Polls

August 2026 New School Classics Poll

The Periodic Table by Primo Levi 1975, 233 pgs

32 votes, 21.1%

Jaws by Peter Benchley 1974, 368 pgs

30 votes, 19.7%

Bonjour tristesse by Françoise Sagan 1954, 130 pgs

27 votes, 17.8%

Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh 1928, 300 pgs

21 votes, 13.8%

Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston 1935, 341 pgs

18 votes, 11.8%

A House for Mr Biswas by V.S. Naipaul 1961, 623 pgs

14 votes, 9.2%

No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod 1999, 304 pgs

10 votes, 6.6%

152 total votes

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