Lesley Choyce is a Canadian

Canada

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 author of novel

Novel

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s, non-fiction

Non-fiction

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, children's books, and poetry

Poetry

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Born in Riverside Township

Riverside Township, New Jersey

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, New Jersey

New Jersey

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, he was educated at Rutgers University

Rutgers University

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, CUNY, and Montclair State University

Montclair State University

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. He emigrated to Canada in 1979 and lives in East Lawrencetown

East Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia

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, Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia

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Choyce is a part-time instructor at Dalhousie University

Dalhousie University

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, host of the television series Choyce Words and Off the Page, and Founding Director of Pottersfield Press.

Choyce is the author of 65 books, and has won The Dartmouth Book Award and the Ann Connor Brimer Award.

Novelist and poet. Surfs the North Atlantic year-round. Runs a literary publishing house and teaches English at Dalhousie University. Hosts "Off the Page" a nationally broadcast program on BookTelevision. Author of more than seventy books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction for adults, teens and children. His writing has earned him several awards, including two Dartmouth Book Awards and the Ann Connor Brimer Award.

Biographical

• Driving Minnie's Piano: Memoirs of a Surfing Life in Nova Scotia (2006)

Seven Ravens From Home: Two summers in a life by the sea (2009)

Fiction

• Eastern Sure (1980)
• Downwind (1984)
• Billy Botzweiler's Last Dance (1984)
• Conventional Emotions (1985)
• The Dream Auditor: Short Stories (1986)
• Coming Up for Air (1988)
• The Second Season of Jonas MacPherson (1989)
• Magnificent Obsessions (1991)
• The Ecstasy Conspiracy (1992)
• The Republic of Nothing (1994)
• World Enough (1998)
• The Summer of Apartment X (1999)
• Clear Cold Morning (2002)
• Shoulder the Sky (2002)
• Sea of Tranquility (2003)
• Smoke and Mirrors (2004)
• "Deconstructing Dylan" (2006)
• The End Of The World As We Know It (2007)
• The Book of Michael (2008)

Non-fiction

• An Avalanche of Ocean (1987)
• December Six/The Halifax Solution (1988)
• Transcendental Anarchy: Confessions of a Metaphysical Tourist (1993)
• Nova Scotia Shaped by the Sea: A Living History (1997)
• The Coasts of Canada (2002)

Children's literature

• Skateboard Shakedown (1989)
• The Hungry Lizzards (1990)
• Wave Watch (1990)
• Wrong Time, Wrong Place (1991)
• Some Kind of Hero (1991)
• Margin of Error (1992)
• Clearcut Danger (1992)
• Full Tilt (1993)
• Good Idea Gone Bad (1993)
• The Dark End of Dream Street (1994)
• Big Burn (1995)
• Go For it Carrie (1997)
• Carrie's Crowd (1998)
• Famous at Last (1998)
• Roid Rage (1999)
• Far Enough Island (2000)
• Carrie's Camping Adventure (2001)

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Poetry

• Re-Inventing the Wheel (1980)
• Fast Living (1982)
• The End of Ice (1985)
• To the Top of the Heart (1986)
• The Coastline of Forgetting (1995)
• Beautiful Sadness (1998)
• Caution to the Wind (2000)

Discography

• Long Lost Planet. Halifax: Deep Nine/Pottersfield, 1996. (music/poetry)
• Sea Level. Halifax: Deep Nine/Pottersfield, 1998. (music/poetry)

External links

• Lesley Choyce's website