Parkinson, Curtis
Curtis Parkinson |
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Curtis grew up in Kingston, Ontario. He graduated from Queen's University in Chemical Engineering and worked in South America and in Canada for many years. Then he moved to the Caribbean to live on his sailboat and write, a lifelong dream. As Curtis says, "Many rejections later, the cat fell off the boat one night, and this story became his first published work, Tom Foolery, a picture book."
More picture books and short stories followed, then a young adult novel, Storm Blast, the story of three teenagers adrift in the vastness of the Caribbean Sea.
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Shortlisted for the 2005-2006 Red Cedar Book Award, Fiction |
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Curtis continued to write stories of the sea and his next young adult novel, Sea Chase, was nominated for the Arthur Ellis and Red Cedar Awards. It is the tale of a boy's desperate search for his father, missing from their sailboat in the night. |
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An accidental meeting with a man who had been a 12-year-old in Italy behind the German lines during a famous World War II battle led to Curtis' next novel, Domenic's War. It was nominated for the Silver Birch Award and the Red Cedar Award. |
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Death In Kingsport, a murder mystery, was published in the fall of 2007. Neil and Graham investigate strange deaths in a small town on Lake Ontario where nothing is as it seems. |
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The Castle On Deadman's Island tells the story of a mysterious disappearance, a castle with a curse, and a most unusual will that leads to murder. |
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