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Ann-Marie MacDonald, born around 1958, is a Canadian playwright, novelist, actor and broadcast journalist world health organization sleep in Toronto, Ontario. the girl of a member of Canada's armed services, she was natural at an air click base in the previous West Germany.

MacDonald won a Commonwealth Writers Prize for her first novel, Fall on Your Knees, which was too known as to Oprah Winfrey's Book Club.

She received a Governor General's Award for Literary Merit, the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award and the Canadian Author's Association Award for her play, Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet).

She likewise appeared in the films ''I've Heard the Mermaids Singing and Better Than Chocolate, among others.

Her 2003 novel, The Way the Crow Flies, was based partially on the Steven Truscott case.

Works
Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) - 1988 play The Arab's Mouth - 1990 (play) Nigredo Hotel - 1992 (opera libretto) The Attic, the Pearls and Three Fine Girls - 1995 (play) Fall on Your Knees - 1996 (novel) Anything That Moves - 2000 (book and lyrics for musical theater) The Way the Crow Flies - 2003 (novel, shortlisted for the Giller Prize) Belle Moral - 2004 (play)

Understand as well:'' List of Canadian writers, List of Canadian playwrights.

CBC's TV Personalities: Ann-Marie MacDonald
Profile of the author, playwright, actor, and host of 'Life and Times'.

Ann-Marie MacDonald on her new musical, Anything That Moves
Interview from CBC Infoculture.

Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees
Review of the novel.

Aisle Say (Boston): Good Night, Desdemona
Review of the play.

Literascape: The New Reader
Review of 'Fall on Your Knees'.

Letters from Camp Rehoboth: Booked Solid
Review of 'Fall on Your Knees'.

A Full Embrace
Review of the musical, 'Anything That Moves'.

Melodramatic 'Fall' unleashes torrent of good, bad writing
Review of 'Fall on Your Knees' from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.






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