Barbara Gowdy, CM (born 25 June 1950) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. Born in Windsor, Ontario, she is the long-time partner of poet Christopher Dewdney and resides in Toronto.
I consider myself to be a 'leap of imagination' writer, and in "Falling Angels" I was imagining not just a nuclear family but a nuclear-shelter family. What would happen, I wondered, if a father decided to put the backyard bomb shelter to the test, if he and his wife and kids hunkered underground for the two weeks that the government defense pamphlets of the time said were sufficient following a nuclear strike?
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Canadian novelist, daughter of an insurance salesman; in a 1999 interview she said she had a brother, two sisters, and two ex-husbands.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Green Door
2008
Short writer
Falling Angels
2003
novel
A Feeling Called Glory
2000
Short story
Spoken Art
1997
TV Series 5 episodes
Kissed
1996
based upon an original story "We So Seldom Look on Love" by
$1.9 Million
