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Ann-Marie MacDonald is a Canadian playwright, novelist, actress and broadcast host who lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The daughter of a member of Canada's military, she was born at an air force base near Baden-Baden, West Germany. She is of Lebanese descent through her mother.

MacDonald won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for her first novel, Fall on Your Knees, which was selected as a "pick" for Oprah Winfrey's Book Club. She received the Governor General's Award for Drama, the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award and the Canadian Authors Association Award for her play, Goodnight Desdemona.

MacDonald hosted the CBC documentary series Life and Times for seven seasons and CBC's flagship documentary program, Doc Zone for eight. She appeared in the films I've Heard the Mermaids Singing and Better Than Chocolate, among others.

Her 2003 novel, The Way the Crow Flies, was partly inspired by the Steven Truscott case. Her new novel, Adult Onset, was released in 2014 and is so far translated into five languages.

She was the inaugural Mordecai Richler Reading Room Writer in Residence at Concordia University, and she coaches students in the Acting and Playwriting Programs at the National Theatre School of Canada.

MacDonald is married to playwright and theatre director Alisa Palmer.

✵ 29. October 1958
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Works

Fall on Your Knees
Fall on Your Knees
Ann-Marie MacDonald
The Way the Crow Flies
The Way the Crow Flies
Ann-Marie MacDonald
Fall on Your Knees
Fall on Your Knees
Ann-Marie MacDonald
The Way the Crow Flies
The Way the Crow Flies
Ann-Marie MacDonald
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Famous Ann-Marie MacDonald Quotes

“Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable.”

Ann-Marie MacDonald book Fall on Your Knees

Source: Fall on Your Knees

“There are some stories you can't hear enough. They are the same every time you hear them. But you are not. That's one reliable way of understanding time.”

Ann-Marie MacDonald book The Way the Crow Flies

Source: The Way the Crow Flies

“Hope is a gift. You can't choose to have it. To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain.”

Ann-Marie MacDonald book Fall on Your Knees

Variant: To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain.
Source: Fall on Your Knees

“Do you think there's such a thing as a ghost who masquerades as a person? Do you believe that there are people whose bodies are still alive here on earth but whose souls are already in hell?”

Ann-Marie MacDonald book Fall on Your Knees

Source: Fall on Your Knees

“They are so young, they forget that the world is not as in love with them as they are.”

Ann-Marie MacDonald book Fall on Your Knees

Source: Fall on Your Knees

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