Jack_hodgins

For the fictional character from Bones (TV series) see Jack Hodgins (Bones)

Jack Hodgins (born October 3, 1938) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. Born in the Comox Valley, British Columbia, he attended the University of British Columbia, where he was encouraged by Earle Birney.

Critically acclaimed, among his best received works is Broken Ground (1998), a historical novel set after the First World War, for which he received the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. He worked as a high school teacher of English in Nanaimo, B.C., before taking a position at the University of Victoria in the Creative Writing Department.

Bibliography

Novels

• The Invention of the World – 1977
• The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne – 1979 (winner of the Governor General\'s Award for English Language Fiction)
• The Honorary Patron – 1987
• Innocent Cities – 1990
• The Macken Charm – 1995
• Broken Ground – 1998
• Distance – 2003

Short stories

• Spit Delaney\'s Island –1976
• The Barclay Family Theatre – 1981
• Damage Done by the Storm – 2005

Children\'s literature

• Left Behind in Squabble Bay – 1988

Non-fiction

• Over Forty in Broken Hill – 1992
• A Passion for Narrative: A Guide for Writing Fiction – 1994

External Links

• Jack Hodgins\'s entry in The Canadian Encyclopedia

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