Marianne Brandis

Marianne Brandis (born October 5, 1938) is a Dutch-born Canadian writer.[1]

Brandis came to Canada with her family in 1947. Her family lived in British Columbia and Nova Scotia before settling in Ontario.[2] She received a BA and MA from McMaster University.[3] She worked as a copywriter for various private radio stations and for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Brandis also taught English at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute. She has been a full-time writer since 1989.[4] She currently lives in Stratford, Ontario.[3]

Selected works[1][4]
  • The Tinderbox (1982)
  • The Quarter-Pie Window (1985), received the Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book Award and the IODE Violet Downey Book Award
  • The Sign of the Scales (1990), received the Geoffrey Bilson Award
  • Fire Ship (1992), received a Commendation from the Toronto Historical Board
  • Rebellion: A Novel of Upper Canada, historical novel for young adults (1996), received the Geoffrey Bilson Award and the Award of Merit from Heritage Toronto
  • Frontiers and Sanctuaries: A Woman's Life in Holland and Canada, biography (2006)
  • The Grand River / Dundalk to Lake Erie (2015)
gollark: Maybe I should try arbitrarily increasing the confusion via recursion.
gollark: If people are randomly assigned (after initial mental development and such) to an environment where they're much more likely to do bad things, and one where they aren't, then it seems unreasonable to call people who are otherwise the same worse from being in the likely-to-do-bad-things environment.I suppose you could argue that how "good" you are is more about the change in probability between environments/the probability of a given real world environment being one which causes you to do bad things. But we can't check those with current technology.
gollark: I think you can think about it from a "veil of ignorance" angle too.
gollark: As far as I know, most moral standards are in favor of judging people by moral choices. Your environment is not entirely a choice.
gollark: If you put a pre-most-bad-things Hitler in Philadelphia, and he did not go around doing *any* genocides or particularly bad things, how would he have been bad?

References
  1. The Storymakers: Writing Children's Books : 83 Authors Talk about Their Work. Canadian Children's Book Centre. 2000. pp. 20–21. ISBN 1551381087.
  2. "The Grand River revealed". The Record. May 2, 2015.
  3. "Rebellion by Marianne Brandis". The Porcupine's Quill.
  4. "Marianne Brandis". Writers' Union of Canada.


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