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Margaret Buffie
Canadian young adult fiction writer
Margaret Buffie is a Canadianyoung adult fiction writer.
Buffie was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She attended Sparling Elementary School, Sargeant Park Junior High, and Daniel McIntyre High School. Buffie has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Manitoba.[1]
She worked as a visual artist before beginning a writing career in 1985. Her first manuscript, a novel entitled Who is Frances Rain? (1987), was published by Kids Can Press in Toronto. This story about a girl who has antique glasses which allow her to see ghosts is considered a "Canadian classic."[2] Her latest novel, Winter Shadows, was published on October 12, 2010, by Tundra Books, a division of Penguin Random House.[3]
Buffie is a recipient of the Vicky Metcalf Award Body of Work Award (For Writing Inspirational to Canadian Youth).[4] She is also a recipient of the Young Adult Canadian Book Award; is a two-time winner of the McNally Robinson Book for Young People award[5] and shortlisted for the Governor Generals Award, as well as being shortlisted for many other awards and honours.
She is married to James Macfarlane and they have one daughter, Christine.[6]
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Margaret Buffie (1945–) Biography
Biographical and Critical Sources
BOOKS
Children's Literature Review, Volume 39, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1996.
Greenwood, Barbara, editor, Behind the Story: The Creators of Our Best Children's Books and How They Do It, Pembroke (Markham, Ontario, Canada), 1995.
Meet Canadian Authors and Illustrators, Scholastic Canada (Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada), 1994.
Reginald, Robert, Science Fiction & Fantasy Literature, 1975–1991, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1992.
St. James Guide to Children's Writers, 5th edition, St. James Press (Detroit, MI), 1999.
PERIODICALS
Booklist, March 15, 1991, p. 1464; October 15, 1997, p. 397; November 1, 2000, Kay Weisman, review of The Watcher, p. 537; October 1, 2002, Kay Weisman, review of The Seeker, pp. 318-319; October 15, 2004, Kay Weisman, review of The Finder, p. 397.
Books for Young People, October, 1987, p. 10.
Books in Canada, December, 1987, p. 11.
Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, March, 1991, pp. 160-161; October, 1997, p. 45.
Canadian Children's Literature, number 53, 1989, pp. 59-60; number 68, 1992, pp. 43-49; number 75, 1994, Linda Soutar, review of My Mother's Ghost, pp. 73-74; number 81, 1996, Margery Stewart, "Our Ghostly Co-habitants: The Seen a