Lesley choyce biography books
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Lesley Choyce was born in New Jersey in and moved to Canada in and became a citizen. He teaches part-time at Dalhousie University, runs Pottersfield Press and has written 40 adult and young adult books. His YA novels concern things like skateboarding, surfing, racism, environmental issues, organ transplants, and rock bands. Lesley surfs year round in the North Atlantic and is considered the father of transcendental wood-splitting. He's worked as a rehab counsellor, a freight hauler, a corn farmer, a janitor, a journalist, a lead guitarist, a newspaper boy and a well-digger. He lives in a year old farm house at Lawrencetown Beach overlooking the ocean. He also hosts a nationally syndicated TV talk show in Halifax. His recent novel, The Republic of Nothing is currently being developed as a feature length movie. In , Viking/Penguin published Choyce's best-selling Nova Scotia: Shaped By The Sea. Along with the Surf Poets, he has released a poetry/music
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Lesley Choyce
Lesley Choyce is a novelist, poet, surfer, broadcaster, publisher, musician, and teacher, in Lawrencetown Beach, Nova Scotia. He is the author of 86 books for adults, teens and children.
Lesley surfs year-round in the North Atlantic, teaches in the English Department and Transition Year Program at Dalhousie University, and is a founding member of the s spoken word rock band, The SurfPoets. He also runs Pottersfield Press, a small literary publishing house, and hosted the national TV show Off The Page for many years.
His books have been translated into Spanish, French, German and Danish and he was awarded the Dartmouth Book Award in and , and the Ann Connor Brimer Award in and Most recently, Lesley has become the proud recipient of a nomination for the Governor General's Literary Awards for his book Jeremy Stone. His previous book, Into the Wasteland, is a finalist for the Ann Connor Brimer Award. Check out h
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Lesley Choyce
Canadian writer and educator
Lesley Choyce (born 21 March ) (m. Linda Choyce) is a Canadian author of novels, non-fiction, children's books, young adult novels, and poetry.
He is the author of more than books for adults, teens and children, and teaches in the English department and transition year program at Dalhousie University. He is a year-round surfer and founding member of the s spoken word rock band The SurfPoets. Choyce also runs Pottersfield Press, a small literary publishing house. He hosted the national TV show Off The Page for many years. His books have been translated into Spanish, French, German and Danish, and he has been awarded the Dartmouth Book Award and the Ann Connor Brimer Award.
He lives at Lawrencetown Beach, Nova Scotia.
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