Linda Spalding on her novel The Purchase
Born in Topeka, Kansas, Linda Spalding (n\xe9e Dickinson) is a Canadian writer and editor who has, over the years, worked as a professor of English and writing at numerous universities. She currently lives in Toronto, is an editor with Brick magazine, and is married to novelist Michael Ondaatje. \xa0
Spalding's\xa0 novel The Purchase\xa0won the 2012 Governor-General\u2019s Literary Award for English Fiction. We met in Ottawa to talk about it. \xa0