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	Alistair MacLeod Interview: The Tuning of Perfection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Alistair MacLeod was born in 1936 in Saskatchewan.
		Someone unfamiliar with MacLeod's oeuvre, presented with his short stories bound out of publication sequence, would be hard pressed to distinguish between the author's "juvenilia" (a treacherous term to apply to the work of an author whose first short story was published when he was 30-years-old) and the more "mature" work.
		MacLeod: (Smiling) Well, I don’t generally hang out in Dublin Castle.It was very splendid and of course they were very nice to me. They described me, I think, in that press release you quoted, as "a diminutive author." I don’t think of myself as tremendously diminutive.
	www.modestyarbor.com /macleod.html (2480 words)

	Alistair MacLeod Biography \| Dictionary of Literary Biography
		Alistair MacLeod is the most important chronicler in fiction of the landscape and folkways of Cape Breton to appear on the Canadian literary scene in recent years.
		MacLeod has been eager to show the historical as well as the geographical ties of his Maritime characters and to reveal their strong links--including the links of language--to the past.
		MacLeod is not interested, however, in dramatizing a joyous revival, such as that of a Christian resurrection.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/alistair-macleod-dlb (1741 words)

	OnCampus: Alistair MacLeod
		MacLeod published his first short story, The Boat, in 1968 and went on to write a total of 14 short stories over three decades, which are published in a collection titled, Island: The Collected Stories.
		MacLeod’s haunting yet charming stories compel readers to immerse themselves into the lives and memories of Cape Breton’s extended families of coal-miners, fishermen and farmers.
		MacLeod is a wonderful storyteller and the rhythm of his prose pulls the reader deeper into the character’s lives.
	www.ucalgary.ca /oncampus/weekly/oct29-04/macleod.html (560 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| By genre \| No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod
		Though Alistair MacLeod's first novel drew unqualified praise from critics when it was first published here last year, it was the award of the Impac, the world's richest literary prize, in Dublin last month that brought the 65-year-old writer properly to the public's notice outside his native Canada.
		MacLeod's magnificent and subtle story blends poetry and history, tracing a family line back to its exodus from the Old World, and exploring the fierce loyalty to blood and history that binds people together over generations.
		MacLeod knows this terrain intimately, and against the bleak landscape his characters play out their small family tragedies in the shadow of the events that link Canada's history with their own.
	books.guardian.co.uk /reviews/roundupstory/0,6121,500400,00.html (347 words)

	Elegy and mourning in Alistair MacLeod's "The Boat" - Articles Studies in Short Fiction - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		MacLeod's short stories are pervasively somber in that they depict a culture that is in a gradual loss or erosion of value.
		Many of MacLeod's narrators can be considered to be mourning, and the stories that they tell are an activity of that process; that is, telling stories has the function of helping a narrator memorialize the dead and thus partially work through feelings of grief.
		MacLeod's stories, however, have not received sustained analysis in terms of mourning, or in terms of their elegiac elements, beyond initial thematic identification.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2455/is_3_35/ai_83585384 (927 words)

	Alistair MacLeod Interview: The Tuning of Perfection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		MacLeod: Well, this is interesting, now, because there is this great rise in book clubs and Vintage has put out a study guide for the novel and it is quite excellent.
		MacLeod: I’ve been around quite a long time, doing my little precious short stories, so I think members of the writing community in Canada were glad that I had finally done this novel.
		MacLeod: It’s all still kind of cloudy, although Prebble is one of the best and I am glad you’ve read him because a lot of things he talks about in his books is kind of new because, well, because.
	www.modestyarbor.com /macleod2.html (2093 words)

	Alistair MacLeod - Moviefone
		Alistair MacLeod was born in North Battleford, Saskatchewan, in 1936.
		Alistair MacLeod was born in North Battleford, Saskatchewan in 1936, but by the age of ten...
		June 2001 found Alistair MacLeod touring in support of the paperback release of...
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/alistair-macleod/434901/main (121 words)

	Trent University - Daily News
		Alistair Macleod, an Ontario author with Cape Breton roots, will arrive on campus this month as the 2002-03 Ashley Fellow.
		Macleod’s short stories were gathered together with two new stories and published in a single-volume book entitled Island.
		Macleod will explore the relationship between celtic music and his writing at one of the Rooke lectures, to be held at the Peterborough Public Library on November 21 at 7:30 p.m.
	www.trentu.ca /news/weekly/archive/021104macleod.html (453 words)

	Alistair MacLeod, Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Alistair MacLeod, raised in Cape Breton, has a writer's eye for seeing the complexity of loving a place and stepping out into the wider world, leaving it behind.
		MacLeod returns in the benign summers, but on his own terms.
		MacLeod is a true craftsman, a writer's writer.
	www.rambles.net /macleod_island02.html (261 words)

	York University Gazette Online
		When Canadian writer Alistair MacLeod heard that he was one of six finalists for the world's richest book prize, the father of six phoned one of his married sons and said that if he won he might just buy a new cat.
		MacLeod writes out each sentence of his books in long hand and then rewrites it until it is right.
		Alistair MacLeod will be at the Sydney Literary Festival in Australia on the day the winner is announced.
	www.yorku.ca /ycom/gazette/past/archive/2001/041101/current.htm (709 words)

	Senior Women Web > Articles > Kristin Nord
		MacLeod’s stories are dark, and often begin as if the speaker were bathed in candlelight, reeling us in for an evening’s yarn.
		MacLeod’s families are unsentimental about such choices, though his narrators do not shy away from the pain these moral dilemmas provoke.
		MacLeod himself, who has taught creative writing and 19th century literature for many years at the University of Windsor, is among those who have left but return to their extended families in the summers.
	www.seniorwomen.com /articles/articlesNordMacLeod.html (963 words)

	Amazon.ca: No Great Mischief: Books: Alistair MacLeod (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		MacLeod, a Canadian of Scottish lineage, has earned a sterling reputation north of the border based on two collections of stories (Barometer Rising; As Birds Bring Forth the Sun), and with his first novel he will only add to that acclaim.
		MacLeod, who has been heralded in his native Canada as a master of the short story, exhibits a remarkable ability to create and handle an intricate plot that goes back and forth between past and present.
		MacLeod's prose has a beautifully understated and intimate cadence to it that suggests an assuredness absent from much of what passes today as good contemporary writing.
	www.amazon.ca /No-Great-Mischief-Alistair-MacLeod/dp/0771055706 (1448 words)

	Biography of Alistair MacLeod
		Alistair MacLeod (born 1936) is a noted Canadian author.
		A specialist in British literature of the nineteenth century, Alistair MacLeod taught English for three years at the University of Indiana before accepting a post in 1969 at the University of Windsor as professor of English and Creative Writing.
		Alistair MacLeod's writing career has been quite remarkable in earning him a great critical reputation on the basis of only fourteen short stories, collected in The Lost Salt Gift of Blood (1976) and As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories (1986).
	biography-2.qardinalinfo.com /m/MacLeod_Alistair.html (341 words)

	MacLeod's Table
		Alistair lurched along behind him, his twisted spine, which had earned him the nickname "Crouchback," not impeding his movement or his speed.
		For James V to refer to the Highlanders as "dear" was, Alistair felt, an insult.
		MacLeod swordsmen stood in a circle, surrounding the feast and holding blazing torches aloft to light the scene.
	www.fables.org /autumn02/macleod.html (1444 words)

	Alistair MacLeod: Essays on His Works (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Alistair MacLeod's writing, evoking a world of memory and myth, and containing the texture and flavour of their East Coast settings, has achieved international recognition ever since the first short story, 'The Boat,' was published in the Massachusetts Review in 1968, and included the following year in Best American Short Stories.
		MacLeod is not a prolific writer, and the publication of his first novel, No Great Mischief, in 1999 was consequently a greatly awaited literary event; the novel went on to receive numerous fiction prizes, including the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award.
		It does contain interesting human interest elements, such as MacLeod's avowal that he is the 'product' of a creative writing program, or his enlightening remarks on how physical jobs such as mining alter one's perception, or even his reflections on ethnolinguistic vitality in increasingly unilingual cultures.
	www.utpjournals.com /product/utq/721/721_review_dvorak.html (523 words)

	International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award
		Alistair MacLeod was born in North Battleford, Saskatchewan, in 1936 and raised among an extended family in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.
		During the winter months Dr. MacLeod is a professor of English at the University of Windsor Ontario.
		Alistair MacLeod has given lectures and readings from his work in many cities in Canada and around the world.
	www.impacdublinaward.ie /2001/nogreatmischief.htm (1176 words)

	Trent Report
		MacLeod expressed his delight at the announcement and anticipates a wonderful experience at Trent University in the coming year.
		Alistair has paid frequent brief visits to Trent in the past, and his Ashley Fellowship will be something of a homecoming.
		Though retired from his position as Professor at the University of Windsor, Alistair MacLeod continues to be a part of the life of the university.
	www.trentu.ca /news/trentreport/mar0102/macleod.html (454 words)

	Review \| No Great Mischief
		is MacLeod's debut novel: hardly a number you'd think would have the publishing world on the edge of its collective and considered seat.
		Part of the recognition factor is no doubt due MacLeod's longtime standing in the academic literary community: the author is currently a professor of English at the University of Windsor in Ontario and he previously taught creative writing at the University of Indiana.
		If there must be a point, it's MacLeod's lovely prose and the elegance with which he inches us along towards a bittersweet conclusion.
	www.januarymagazine.com /fiction/nogreatmischief.html (536 words)

	Alistair MacLeod - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alistair MacLeod born 1936 in North Battleford, Saskatchewan is a noted Canadian author and Professor of English at the University of Windsor.
		When MacLeod was ten when his family moved to a farm in Inverness County on Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Island.
		A specialist in British literature of the nineteenth century, MacLeod taught English for three years at Indiana University before accepting a post in 1969 at the University of Windsor as professor of English and creative writing.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alistair_MacLeod (433 words)

	WFNS: Alistair MacLeod
		He taught at Indiana University from 1966 until 1969, then moved to the University of Windsor, where he is currently Professor of English and Creative Writing.
		Alistair's short fiction roots itself in carefully delineated and haunting settings, only to transcend the settings in humane explorations of the personal struggles that challenge and often defeat men and women of all time.
		"Alistair MacLeod enjoys a place in 20th century North American literature not enjoyed by very many writers.
	www.writers.ns.ca /Writers/amacleod.html (394 words)

	Avon Old Farms: Bio - Alistair MacLeod
		Born in North Battleford, Saskatchewan, in 1936 and raised among an extended family in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Alistair MacLeod is a Canadian national treasure.
		MacLeodâs novel No Great Mischief, which follows the lives of several generations of a family that emigrates from Scotland to Cape Breton, won the worldâs richest book prize, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, worth $172,000.
		MacLeodâs early studies were at the Nova Scotia Teachers College, St. Francis Xavier, the University of New Brunswick, and Notre Dame, where he earned his Ph.D. In his early years, to finance his education, he worked as a logger, a miner, and a fisherman.
	www.avonoldfarms.com /page.cfm?p=543 (311 words)

	Northwest Passages - Author Profile: Alistair MacLeod
		Alistair MacLeod was born in North Battleford, Saskatchewan in 1936, but by the age of ten had returned with his family to their farm in Cape Breton.
		MacLeod then went on to receive his MA in 1961 from the University of New Brunswick and his PhD in 1968 from the University of Notre Dame.
		A specialist in British literature of the nineteenth century, MacLeod taught English for three years at the University of Indiana before accepting a post in 1969 at the University of Windsor where he remains a professor of English and Creative Writing to this day.
	www.nwpassages.com /bios/macleod.asp (465 words)

	Alistair MacLeod, The Lost Salt Gift of Blood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Set in his native Cape Breton, they examine in detail the relationships within families and communities, between the past and the present, and most of all, the ways in which the past lives in the present, because it is in each of us.
		Life, for the inhabitants of MacLeod¹s Cape Breton, is a constant struggle against the elements, and against fate.
		MacLeod¹s prose is very much a product of the storytelling tradition; the bardic musicality of it resonates long after the covers of the book are closed.
	www.rambles.net /macleod_lostsalt.html (492 words)

	Campus News: Author Alistair MacLeod to give talk at U of G
		Alistair MacLeod, author of No Great Mischief, will speak to University of Guelph students and community members March 13 at 7 p.m.
		MacLeod was born in North Battleford, Sask., in 1936 and was raised on Cape Breton Island.
		Murray said MacLeod was "a great mentor for his students." While the author is in Guelph, he will also be meeting with the university's creative writing students.
	www.uoguelph.ca /mediarel/archives/002388.html (548 words)

	Author Alistair MacLeod on the ties that bind us - CTR Vol. 28, No. 9 - Jan. 29, 2004
		MacLeod is author of two short story collections and the 2001 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award winner, No Great Mischief, from which he read excerpts last Tuesday in the English Department’s Writers Read series.
		MacLeod still defines himself largely as a storyteller, and several of the audience members later commented on what a pleasure it was to hear MacLeod’s words read aloud.
		Often dubbed the “writer’s writer,” MacLeod is widely acknowledged as one of Canada’s greatest living authors, a title that has been earned by decades of plodding, but exacting, work.
	ctr.concordia.ca /2003-04/jan_29/12 (450 words)

	Alistair MacLeod - Poetry-in-the-Round - Seton Hall Univeristy
		Alistair MacLeod’s first published story, “The Boat,” went on to be included in The Best American Short Stories 1969, and, ever since, he has enjoyed a reputation as a consummate literary craftsman whose stories appeal to critics and general readers alike.
		Hugh MacLennan once wrote that MacLeod is "One of the finest short story writers now living, or for that matter, who ever lived,” and, more recently, Russell Banks has confirmed that "One can compare [his] stories only to literature.
		There are times when I am half out of bed and fumbling for my socks and mumbling for words before I realize that I am foolishly alone, that no one waits at the base of the stairs and no boat rides restlessly in the waters by the pier.
	artsci.shu.edu /poetry/previous/amacleod.html (257 words)

	ReadingGroupGuides.com - Island by Alistair MacLeod
		The sixteen exquisitely crafted stories in Island prove Alistair MacLeod to be a master.
		The events that propel MacLeod's stories convince us of the importance of tradition, the beauty of the landscape, and the necessity of memory.
		MacLeod clearly has a distinctive literary voice… His writing is seamless, rather like a Heifetz CD or a Sinatra or Fitzgerald song….
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides3/island1.asp (921 words)

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