Margaret Buffie
Margaret Buffie is a Canadian young adult fiction writer.Buffie was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She attended Sparling Elementary School, Sargeant Park Junior High, and Daniel McIntyre High School. Buffie has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Manitoba.
She worked as a visual artist before beginning a writing career in 1985. Her first manuscript, a novel entitled ''Who is Frances Rain?'' (1987), was published by Kids Can Press in Toronto. This story about a girl who has antique glasses which allow her to see ghosts is considered a "Canadian classic." Her latest novel, ''Winter Shadows'', was published on October 12, 2010, by Tundra Books, a division of Penguin Random House.
Buffie is a recipient of the Vicky Metcalf Award Body of Work Award (For Writing Inspirational to Canadian Youth). She is also a recipient of the Young Adult Canadian Book Award; is a two-time winner of the McNally Robinson Book for Young People award and shortlisted for the Governor Generals Award, as well as being shortlisted for many other awards and honours.
She is married to James Macfarlane and they have one daughter, Christine. Provided by Wikipedia
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