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  1. Screenwriter and novelist. Lives with his wife, film and musical producer Mary Young Leckie. They divide their time between Toronto, their cottage in the Kawartha Highlands and the Bahamas, with their three adult children. Interests: hiking, sailing, traveling and telling unique stories.

  2. Apr 9, 2020 · Keith Ross Leckie's novel Cursed! Blood of the Donnellys is a fictional account of the notorious family and that time in Canadian history. He stopped by The Next Chapter to chat about why he wrote ...

  3. Keith has worked as a novelist, screenwriter and director after a brief career as a cabbie. His third novel, “Cursed! Blood of the Donnellys” will be published on Sept. 28, 2019. The next novel, “The American Problem”, inspired by his experiences imbedded with Canadian forces in Kandahar, Afghanistan in 2009, is nearing completion and ...

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  4. Oct 5, 2023 · A press and publishing industry free from government censorship is something we hold sacred in Canada and consider inviolable. Yet writers around the world risk persecution, imprisonment, and violence for putting pen to paper – something Keith Ross Leckie knows well from his long-standing relationships with numerous refugee writers who began to rebuild their lives in Canada.

  5. Jan 1, 2010 · Author Keith Ross Leckie’s closing comment in an afterword interview is worth repeating: “Our task as creators is to make these stories relevant to this generation and the issues it faces. In COPPERMINE, I deal with issues such as the futility of war, new approaches to the environment, religious fundamentalism, and even gender shifting.

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  6. Nov 29, 2010 · It is welcome, then, to find Keith Ross Leckie's Coppermine portaging into the world. Like Penney, Leckie is a screenwriter (CBC miniseries including Mowat's Lost in the Barrens) and, like Penney ...

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  8. Keith Ross Leckie has worked in the film and television business as a dramatic scriptwriter for more than 30 years. His credits include multiple CBC miniseries including Everest!, Shattered City, Milgaard, The Arrow, and Lost in the Barrens. He lives in Toronto with his wife and children.