Ann Copeland

Ann Copeland
Born Virginia Walsh
December 16, 1932
Hartford, Connecticut
Occupation short story writer
Nationality American-Canadian
Period 1970s-1990s
Notable works The Golden Thread

Ann Copeland is the pen name of Virginia Walsh Furtwangler (born December 16, 1932 in Hartford, Connecticut),[1] an American-Canadian writer. She was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 1989 Governor General's Awards for her short story collection The Golden Thread.[2]

Born and raised in Hartford, Connecticut as Virginia Walsh,[1] she was educated at the Catholic University of America and Cornell University.[1] She married Allan Furtwangler in 1968, and moved to Sackville, New Brunswick to teach at Mount Allison University.[1]

She has published five short story collections and an instructional guide to writing fiction.[3]

She returned to the United States in 1996, and is currently a professor emeritus at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon.[3]

Works

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 W. H. New, Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada. University of Toronto Press, 2002. ISBN 0802007619. Entry "Copeland, Ann", p. 236.
  2. "Three B.C. writers in running for awards". Vancouver Sun, February 7, 1990.
  3. 1 2 International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004. Europa Publications, 2003. ISBN 978-1857431797. Entry "Furtwangler, Virginia Walsh", p. 192.


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