Margaret Laurence
Born: July 18, 1926, Neepawa, Manitoba
Died: January 5, 1987, Lakefield, Ontario
Cause of death: Suicide associated with a diagnosis of terminal metastatic lung cancer
Burial plot: Neepawa Cemetery
Occupation: Author
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.
She is interred in the Neepawa Cemetery, Neepawa Manitoba.
