Janette Turner Hospital (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
In 1986 Janette Turner Hospital was named one of Canada’s ten best fiction writers under the age of forty-five. Hospital is not a native Canadian, however; she was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1942, the eldest child and only daughter in a family so religiously conservative that, as a teenager, she was not allowed to go to the movies or out on dates. When she was still quite young, the family moved north to Brisbane, Queensland. It was not until she was twenty years old and had taken a job teaching high school English in a rough coastal town that Hospital finally attained some...
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