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Laurence, Margaret
Date of Birth
1926-07-18
Place of birth:
Neepawa, Manitoba
Date of Death
1987-01-05
Place of death:
Lakefield, Ontario
Cause of death:
Cancer: lung. The cancer had spread and rather than suffer, Laurence took her own life.
Margaret Laurence Margaret Laurence
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Also known asJean Margaret Wemyss
Margaret Laurence was a Governor General Award winning novelist for A Jest of God (1966) and The Diviners (1974). Her novel Stone Angel (1964) is also widely read in schools across Canada.
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Interment Info
She was buried in her hometown in the Riverside Cemetery, Neepawa, Manitoba. Her ashes were brought by her children, Jocelyn and David, to be interred in Riverside Cemetery, Neepawa, on June 23, the day before the official opening of The Margaret Laurence Home, the house where she had lived in her youth.