Rosemary Sullivan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Rosemary Sullivan

Canadian writer

Date of Birth: 29-Aug-1947

Place of Birth: Greater Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Profession: writer, poet, biographer

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Rosemary Sullivan

  • Rosemary Sullivan O.C.
  • (born 1947) is a Canadian poet, biographer, and anthologist.Sullivan was born in the small town of Valois on Lac Saint-Louis, just outside Montreal, Quebec.
  • After graduating from St.
  • Thomas High School, she attended McGill University on a scholarship, and received her bachelor's degree in 1968.
  • After she was married, in 1968, she attended the University of Connecticut, where she received her MA in 1969.
  • She then attended the University of Sussex, receiving a PhD for her thesis "The Garden Master: The Poetry of Theodore Roethke" in 1972 (it was published as a book in 1975). After she completed her PhD, Sullivan moved to France to teach at the University of Dijon, and later at the University of Bordeaux.
  • Two years later she was hired at the University of Victoria, and then in 1977 at the University of Toronto, where she taught until her retirement.
  • In 1978, she decided to dedicate herself to her writing, while still teaching.
  • She is now a Professor Emerita. Sullivan's first collection of poems, The Space a Name Makes, was awarded the Gerald Lampert Award for the best first book of poetry published in Canada in 1968.
  • In 1987 Sullivan began writing a biography of Elizabeth Smart, By Heart, which was published in 1991 by Penguin Books.
  • Sullivan realized that she had a passion for biographies.
  • Her Shadow Maker: The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen, which was published in 1995,' won numerous awards, including the Governor General's Award for Non-Fiction, the Canadian Authors’ Association Award for Non-fiction, the President’s Medal for Biography, University of British Columbia, and the City of Toronto Book Award.
  • Another of her biographies, The Red Shoes: Margaret Atwood Starting Out, was published in 1998. Aside from her writing career, Sullivan has worked with Amnesty International since 1979, and in 1980 she founded a congress to aid its activities.
  • She has travelled all over the world, including Russia, Czechoslovakia, Cuba, Chile and Nicaragua.Sullivan was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2012.
  • In 2015, she won the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction for Stalin's Daughter, her biography of Svetlana Alliluyeva.

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