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Cynthia Holz (born 1950 in New York City, United States) is an American-born Canadian author.[1] She graduated in English in 1971 from Queens College, City University of New York.[1] She moved to Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1976 while working as the Canadian correspondent for Business Week magazine.[2] She began publishing short stories in 1980 in literary journals[3] and anthologies such as The Malahat Review and The Fiddlehead.[2] She has written essays and book reviews for The Globe and Mail, The Ottawa Citizen, Quill & Quire and The National Post.[2] She has published five novels and one collection of short stories. Her latest novel, Benevolence, was released in Spring 2011 by Knopf Canada.[4]

She spent almost twenty years teaching creative writing at Ryerson University.[2]

Bibliography

Novels

Cynthia Holz on Bookbits radio talks about Benevolence.
  • Onlyville, The Porcupine’s Quill, 1994, ISBN 0-88984-178-0
  • The Other Side, Second Story Press, 1997, ISBN 1-896764-01-0
  • Semi Detached, Key Porter Books, 1999, ISBN 1-894433-00-9 (also published in England by Piatkus Publishers, 2000, ISBN 0-7499-3207-4)
  • A Good Man, Thomas Allen Publishers, 2003, ISBN 0-88762-118-X
  • Benevolence, Knopf Canada, 2011, ISBN 0-307-39889-7

Short stories

References

  1. ^ a b Lumley, Elizabeth (2006). Canadian Who's Who Volume XLI. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. p. 608. ISBN 0-8020-4054-3.
  2. ^ a b c d http://www.readings.org/?q=biographies/cynthia_holz
  3. ^ Jason Sherman (8 April 1989). "Holz shows lives in turmoil". The Toronto Star. Retrieved 29 May 2011.
  4. ^ Book Review: Benevolence, by Cynthia Holz
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