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Wayne Johnston is a brilliant and accomplished writer and his Newfoundland boots and boats, rough politics and rough country, history and journalism is vivid and sharp. -- Annie Proulx Unlike most recent bestselling novels that are remembered for the plane flight and then promptly forgotten, Wayne's stories have characters who move in and take ...
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Wayne Johnston's breakthrough epic novel The Colony of...
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Wayne Johnston was born and raised in Goulds, Newfoundland....
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Jennie's Boy, A Newfoundland Childhood Wayne Johnston...
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Wayne Johnston is represented by: Jackie Kaiser, President...
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With the passage of time and having taken up a position as...
- The Navigator of New York
Wayne Johnston has harnessed the scope, energy and...
- Baltimore's Mansion
Filled with heart-stopping description and a cast of...
- The Divine Ryans
When first published in 1990, The Divine Ryans received...
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Wayne Johnston (born May 22, 1958) is a Canadian novelist. His fiction deals primarily with the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, often in a historical setting. In 2011 Johnston was awarded the Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award in recognition of his overall contribution to Canadian Literature.
Oct 5, 2021 · The Mystery of Right and Wrong is a novel by Wayne Johnston based on his wife's upbringing with a father who sexually abused his four daughters, a carefully guarded secret.
Sep 19, 2023 · Wayne Johnston is a writer, born and raised in Goulds, N.L. His novels include The Divine Ryans , A World Elsewhere , The Custodian of Paradise , The Navigator of New York and The...
Sep 23, 2022 · Wayne Johnston is a writer, born and raised in Goulds, N.L. His novels include The Divine Ryans , A World Elsewhere , The Custodian of Paradise , The Navigator of New York and The...
Wayne Johnston was born and raised in Goulds, Newfoundland. After a brief stint in pre-Med, Wayne obtained a BA in English from Memorial University. He worked as a reporter for the St. John's Daily News before deciding to devote himself full-time to writing.
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Jan 30, 2012 · Wayne Johnston, novelist (born at Goulds, NL 22 May 1958). Born in a small community just south of St John's, Wayne Johnston spent most of his childhood moving from place to place within the St John's area - a fact reflected in his semi-autobiographical first novel, The Story of Bobby O'Malley.
