Donna Morrissey

Donna Morrissey (born January 13, 1956, in The Beaches, Newfoundland) is a Canadian author.

At age 16, Morrissey left her birthplace of The Beaches, a small outport on the west coast of Newfoundland. She lived in various places in Canada before returning to St. John's, where she studied at Memorial University and obtained a Bachelor of Social Work and a diploma in adult education. Morrissey now lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Morrissey has written six national best sellers and prize-winning novels — ''Kit's Law'', ''Downhill Chance'', ''Sylvanus Now'', ''What They Wanted'', ''The Deception of Livvy Higgs'', and ''The Fortunate Brother'' — as well as one Gemini-nominated screenplay. In 2021 She published a memoir, ''Pluck: A Memoir of a Newfoundland Childhood and the Raucous, Terrible, Amazing Journey to becoming a Novelist''.

Morrissey defended Frank Parker Day's novel ''Rockbound'' in ''Canada Reads 2005''. ''Rockbound'' eventually won the competition. In the 2007 edition of ''Canada Reads'', an "all-star" competition pitting the five winning advocates from previous years against each other, Morrissey returned to champion Anosh Irani's novel ''The Song of Kahunsha''.

Morrissey had a double mastectomy due to breast cancer, Provided by Wikipedia