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I had a childhood that went from colour to black-and-white.
Linda Holeman is a Canadian author of fiction.

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Linda Holeman Biography

Linda Holeman, who was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on December 24, 1949, the second of five children of Leon and Donna Freeman, dreamed of being a writer in England because she did not believe there were Canadian writers. She believed that a writer was someone magical who lived in a place like England.

Following high school, Holeman completed a bachelor of arts in sociology and psychology from the University of Winnipeg in 1972 and then took a one-year teacher certification program at the University of Manitoba. Married during the second year of her bachelor of arts degree, Holeman and her husband, Jon, "spent a year in Europe doing the '70's hippy-van thing, traveling around, stopping and working on farms" following her teacher education program.

After returning to Canada, the couple spent two years teaching at South Indian Lake in northern Manitoba for a couple of years...

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A Writer’s Life

The Why of It

I had a childhood that went from colour to black-and-white. My first eleven years were spent in Winnipeg’s North End, at that time a haven for people from Eastern Europe looking for a new life. I loved it all: my parents and four siblings and Russian grandmother and my father’s television repair business in the basement of that old cramped house beside Rosenblatt’s Grocery. I thought the sounds – television music and chatter echoing through the floorboards, delivery trucks outside, unknown languages spoken all around me – were normal. But at one point my mother declared she’d had enough of the chaos and noise and growing safety issues in our turbulent neighbourhood, and we moved to a new and antiseptic suburb.

With the move, all the sounds and color leached out of my life. My beloved grandmother remained in the North End, as did the televisions: my father opened his own repair shop in the old neighbourhood. There was a big picture window in the L-shaped living-dining room of our new 1960s ranch house. It looked out on the quiet, empty

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Randall Freeman

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Biography

Linda received a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Winnipeg, a BEd in Special Education and MEd in Educational Psychology from the University of Manitoba. She has crossed genres with her work, publishing both short story collections and novels for young adults and adults. She has taught creative writing, served on editorial boards, and acted as writer-in-residence at the Millenium Library in Winnipeg.

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City: Toronto, Province/Territory: Ontario

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