Alistair MacLeod, Canadian novelist and short story writer (died 2014)

Alistair MacLeod

Canadian writer and academic (1936–2014)

Alistair MacLeod was a Canadian novelist, short story writer and academic. His powerful and moving stories vividly evoke the beauty of Cape Breton Island's rugged landscape and the resilient character of many of its inhabitants, the descendants of Scottish immigrants, who are…