Merilyn Simonds
Autor/a de Art of Soap Making (Harrowsmith Contemporary Primer)
Sobre l'autor
Merilyn Simonds was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in 1949 and grew up in Brazil. Educated at the University of Western Ontario, she has worked as a freelance writer, magazine editor and, since 1991, has devoted herself full-time to writing. Simonds has published 10 books and numerous magazine mostra'n més articles on subjects such as the environment, games, and war. She has amassed a number of writing awards including the Canadian Science Writers' Award for magazine journalism in 1990, and the Governor General's Award for Non-Fiction, shortlisted, for The Convict Lover: A True Story, in 1996. One of her best-known books is The (New) Games Treasury, which is an update of the 1993 edition in which she outlines the strategies, rules, and traditions of more than 300 board, piece, mind, and outdoor games, ranging from the familiar to the exotic. Merilyn Simonds resides in Kingston, Ontario with writer Wayne Grady. She is a regular on the Canadian Broadcasting Company's radio show "Basic Black." (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Nota de desambiguació:
(eng) Merilyn Simonds also wrote several non-fiction books under the names Merilyn Mohr and Merilyn Simonds Mohr.
Crèdit de la imatge: © Bernard Clark
Obres de Merilyn Simonds
The Games Treasury: More Than 300 Indoor and Outdoor Favorites With Strategies, Rules and Traditions (1993) 87 exemplars
The Harrowsmith Salad Garden: A Complete Guide to Growing and Dressing Fresh Vegetables and Greens (1992) — Autor — 29 exemplars
Obres associades
The Valour and the Horror: The Untold Story of Canadians in the Second World War (1991) 24 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Simonds, Merilyn
- Altres noms
- Mohr, Merilyn
Simonds Mohr, Merilyn - Data de naixement
- 1949
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- Canada
- Llocs de residència
- Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Brazil
Kingston, Ontario, Canada - Relacions
- Grady, Wayne (husband)
- Nota de desambiguació
- Merilyn Simonds also wrote several non-fiction books under the names Merilyn Mohr and Merilyn Simonds Mohr.
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 22
- També de
- 1
- Membres
- 641
- Popularitat
- #39,339
- Valoració
- 3.7
- Ressenyes
- 11
- ISBN
- 55
- Llengües
- 2
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Woman, Watching: Louise de Kiriline Lawrence and the Songbirds of Pimisi Bay
Merilyn Simonds, 2022, ECW Press, an imprint of Baker & Taylor Publisher Services
Themes: Biography, Naturalist, Birds
While living in an isolated cabin in Ontario, Canada, Louise de Kiriline Lawrence worked as a nurse then devoted her life to studying birds. The author connects the life story of this pioneer of ornithology with her own passion for songbirds.
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