Edith Iglauer
Edith Iglauer (1917-2019) was born in Cleveland, Ohio. She married Philip Hamburger and raised two sons in New York. A frequent contributor to the New Yorker, she wrote a great deal about Canada. Her first book, The New People (1966, reprinted and updated as Inuit Journey in 1979 and 2000) chronicled the growth of native cooperatives in the eastern Arctic. She profiled Pierre Trudeau in 1969 and internationally known architect Arthur Erickson in 1979. Denison's Ice Road is about the building of a 325-mile winter road above the Arctic Circle. Divorced in 1966, she came to Vancouver in 1973. She married John Heywood Daly, a commercial salmon troller and moved to Garden Bay on the BC coast. Daly died in 1978. After writing Seven Stones: A Portrait of Arthur Erickson, Architect (1981) she began recording her memories of her late husband and his salmon troller the MoreKelp. The result was Fishing with John, a runaway bestseller and nominee for the 1989 Governor General's Award for Non-Fiction. Her second memoir, about her career in journalism, was The Strangers Next Door.
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Denison's Ice Road 978-1-55017-041-2 · 1-55017-041-4 · 1991 · Paperback CAD$21.95 · USD$21.95 "The reader, if he or she doesn't watch out, will succumb to [Iglauer's] affection for Canada's 'true north'- a disease that people up there call Arctic Fever, and say is incurable." -New York Times |
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Fishing with John 978-1-55017-048-1 · 1-55017-048-1 · 1992 · Paperback CAD$24.95 · USD$24.95 Made into the movie, Navigating the Heart, starring Jaclyn Smith and Tim Matheson. Shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for Non-Fiction and the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction BC Book Prize. |
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Fishing with John 978-0-920080-93-1 · 0-920080-93-6 · 1988 · Hardback CAD$28.95 · USD$28.95 Recently made into the movie, Navigating the Heart, starring Jaclyn Smith and Tim Matheson. |
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Inuit Journey: The Co-operative Adventure in Canada's North 978-1-55017-223-2 · 1-55017-223-9 · 2000 · Paperback CAD$21.95 · USD$21.95 One of BC's most popular writers recalls her visits to the unforgettable and unforgiving land now known as Nunavut. |
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Seven Stones: A Portrait of Arthur Erickson, Architect 978-0-920080-13-9 · 0-920080-13-8 · 1981 · Hardback CAD$24.95 · USD$24.95 "Her handsomely illustrated book. . . is a hymn of praise to the most discussed Canadian architect of our time." -Robert Fulford, Saturday Night |
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The Strangers Next Door 978-1-55017-054-2 · 1-55017-054-6 · 1991 · Hardback CAD$32.95 · USD$32.95 "A charming collection. . . contains the key pieces that earned her the reputation as one of Canada's main interpreters in the United States." -Globe & Mail |