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John Victor Maxwell Braithwaite (7 December 1911 – 19 March 1995) was a Canadian novelist and non-fiction author. He was born in Nokomis , Saskatchewan and spent his youth in a number of communities in that province.
Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite: 1963 2008 essayist, novelist, poet Max Braithwaite: 1911 1995 novelist, non-fiction The Night We Stole the Mountie's Car: Shannon Bramer: 1973 poet The Refrigerator Memory: Alan Bradley: 1938 mystery Flavia de Luce series Dionne Brand: 1953 essayist, novelist, poet What We All Long For, Land to Light On: Di Brandt: 1952
The Stephen Leacock Associates, the non-profit organising body behind the award, was founded in 1946 by a loose group of Leacock’s friends and supporters. [1] Although administered and presented separately today, the award was announced as part of the Governor General's Awards in its early years.
Manchester Community College News Item on E. R. Braithwaite; Susie Thomas's article on the London Fictions site about To Sir, with Love; Onyekachi Wambu (1998), Black British Literature since Windrush. BBC; BBC 7 listing for 17/18 Oct 2008; Manchester, CT, Community College News Archive (February 3, 2006), Dr. Edward R. Braithwaite author of ...
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It was founded in 1910 by W. E. B. Du Bois (editor), Oswald Garrison Villard, J. Max Barber, Charles Edward Russell, Kelly Miller, William Stanley Braithwaite, and Mary Dunlop Maclean. The Crisis has been in continuous print since 1910, and it is the oldest Black-oriented magazine in the world. [ 1 ]
Each author shortlisted for the award receives $1,000, and the winner or winners receive the balance of $15,000. The award has frequently gone to multiple winners. 1987 was the first time in the history of the award that only a single winner was named.
1904: The area was opened to homesteading. 1906: Florence Mary Halstead established a post office on the Halstead farm and called it "Nokomis". [1] After the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway was built, the town requested the post office be moved into town, accepting the condition of the post-mistress that the town be renamed "Nokomis".