Leon Rooke, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Leon Rooke

Canadian writer

Date of Birth: 11-Sep-1934

Place of Birth: Halifax County, North Carolina, United States

Profession: writer, academic, novelist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Leon Rooke, CM (born September 11, 1934) is a Canadian novelist.
He was born in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina in the United States.
Educated at the University of North Carolina, he moved to Canada in 1969.
He now lives in Toronto, Ontario. Rooke helped to found the Eden Mills Writers' Festival in 1989.
In 2002, Rooke championed The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence in that year's edition of Canada Reads.
Rooke's work also appears in Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts. In 2007, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada.