Jean Baird
Jean Baird is the co-editor, with George Bowering, of The Heart Does Break: Canadian Writers on Grief and Mourning (Random House, 2009), and the author of The Booker Project.
1989
1989 The National Book Trust administers the Booker Prize in the UK. The organization appears to be networked with everyone, with connections to anything and everything connected to books. Its motto is “inspiring a love of books.” Notice that it’s all about books, not about writers. As well as the Booker, the Trust…
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Jean Baird files a think piece about the how Canadian writing is no longer taught in our secondary and middle schools and why it happened.
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