Baltimore's Mansion (25 page)

Acknowledgments

Thank you to my peerless editor and friend at Knopf Canada, Diane Martin; to Louise Dennys, my publisher; to Sharon Klein, my heavenly publicist; and to my agent, Anne McDermid.

Wayne Johnston's latest novel (his fifth),
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams,
has been published internationally to tremendous critical acclaim. The film version of a previous novel,
The Divine Ryans,
was released in 1999.
Baltimore's Mansion
was the recipient of the inaugural Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction. Wayne Johnston was born and raised in Newfoundland and now lives in Toronto.

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All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in Canada by Vintage Canada, a division of Random House of Canada Limited, in 2000. First published in hardcover in Canada by Alfred A. Knopf Canada, Toronto, in 1999. Distributed by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

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Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data

Johnston, Wayne, 1958
        Baltimore's mansion : a memoir

eISBN: 978-0-307-37543-8

1. Johnston, Wayne, 1958– — Biography. 2. Johnston, Wayne, 1958 — Family. 3. Fathers and sons — Newfoundland. 4. Newfoundland — Social life and customs. 5. Novelists, Canadian (English) — 20
^th
century — Biography. I. Title.

PS8569.O3918Z53 2000                C813'.54                C00-931353-2
PR9199.3.J599Z464 2000

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