Baltimore's Mansion
A Memoir
WINNER OF THE CHARLES TAYLOR PRIZE FOR LITERARY NON-FICTION • GOVERNOR GENERAL'S AWARD FOR LITERARY NONFICTION NOMINEE • AMASSADOR BOOK AWARD NOMINEE
"Incredibly moving, deeply personal and often hilarious." —The Toronto Star
"A prodigiously talented author—Baltimore's Mansion ought to win a wide readership, especially among those of us grasping after the meaning of our own fathers' lives." —The Globe and Mail
"Much more than a memoir—Johnston has used all the fictive techniques he has mastered as a mature literary artist to shape the materials of real life into a work of astonishing beauty and power." —National Post
Baltimore's Mansion introduces us to the Johnstons of Ferryland, a Catholic colony founded by Lord Baltimore in the 1620s on the Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland, and…
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September 26, 2000WAYNE JOHNSTON was born and raised in Goulds, Newfoundland. Widely acclaimed for his magical weaving of fact and fiction, his masterful plotting and his gift for both description and character, his #1 nationally bestselling novels include First Snow, Last Light; The Custodian of Paradise; The Navigator of New York; and The Colony of Unrequited Dreams. Baltimore’s Mansion, a memoir about his father and grandfather, won the inaugural Charles Taylor Prize for literary non-fiction. The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, published in 1998, was nominated for sixteen national and international awards including the Scotiabank Giller Prizeand the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, and was a Canada Reads finalist defended by Justin Trudeau. A theatrical adaptation of the novel recently toured Canada.His…