The Stone Angel | About the Author

Canadian author Margaret Laurence was born Margaret Wemyss in 1926 in Neepawa, Manitoba. Both her parents died when she was a child: her mother in 1930 and her father in 1935. Young Margaret, her step-brother and step-mother then moved into the home of her grandfather, an autocratic man who was the town undertaker. He had a library which must have brought her many happy moments looking through books, at pictures of plants and animals from faraway countries.

Though the Trans-Canada Highway runs through Neepawa, it is still a quiet small town, and when the young people grow up...

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