Kevin Major St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada E-Mail

Biographical / Critical Sources

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Contemporary Authors (New Revision Series), Volume 38, Gale, 1993, pp. 249-250.

Contemporary Literary Criticism, Volume 26, Gale, 1983.

Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 60: Canadian Writers since 1960, Second Series, Gale, 1987.

Gallo, Donald R. (ed), Speaking for Ourselves, National Council of Teachers of English, 1990, pp. 133-134.

Garrod, Andrew (ed), Speaking For Myself: Canadian Writers in Interview, Breakwater Books, 1986.

Gertridge, Allison (ed), Meet Canadian Authors and Illustrators, Scholastic Canada, 1994.

Kovacs, Deborah, Meet the Authors and Illustrators, Vol. 2, Scholastic, 1993.

Noyes, Stacey and Pearson, Nancy (ed), Writing Stories, Making Pictures, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 1994.

Saltman, Judith, Modern Canadian Children's Books, Oxford University Press, 1987, pp. 67-68.

Something About the Author, Volume 82, Gale, 1995, pp. 148-152

Stott, Jon C. and Jones, Raymond, Canadian Books for Children,Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988, pp. 116-119.

Twentieth-Century Young Adult Writers, St. James Press, 1994, pp.419-420.

Thompson, Hilary (ed), Children's Voices in Atlantic Literature and Culture,Canadian Children's Press. ISBN: 0-920512-12-7

Angelotti, Mike, "An interview with Kevin Major," The ALAN Review, Winter, 1983.

Brown, Lloyd, "Kevin Major: Newfoundland's problem novelist," Canadian Children's Literature, No. 66, 1992.

Duffy, Mary, "A Sense of Truth (A profile of Kevin Major)", Canadian Materials, November 1989, pp. 255-6.

Fraser, Matthew, "Writer probes youthful worries with rare insight," Globe and Mail, March 26, 1988, p. C4.

Hart, Anne, "Coming of Age in Marten", Newfoundland Studies,Vol. 1, #2, Fall 1985, pp. 235-9

Jenkinson, David, "Portraits: Kevin Major," Emergency Librarian, Jan-Feb 1992 (19:3), pp. 66-70.

Major, Kevin, "My life and letters," Canadian Children's Literature, No. 54, 1989.

_____, "Challenged materials: an author's perspective," School Libraries in Canada, spring, 1984, pp. 15-16.

_____, "No Man's Land - a tough book to write" (cover story), The Newfoundland Herald, July 1, 1995, pp. 6-8.

Maclean's, "Remembering a historic disaster," June 5, 1995, pp. 10-11.

McNaughton, Janet, "Major's moves" (cover story), Quill and Quire, April 1993, pp. 1, 30.

Morash, Gordon, "Major remembers colonial cannon fodder," The Edmonton Journal, November 12, 1995, p. F5.

Neilsen, Lorri, "Tales of Newfoundland youth spell success for Kevin Major" (cover story), Atlantic Insight, November 1984, pp. 26-29.

Ross, Val, "Kevin Major's battle lines," Globe and Mail, May 25, 1995, p. A12. (national edition: May 27, p. C7)

Turbide, Diane, "Boyhood on the rock," Maclean's, April 17, 1989, p. 61.

Vaughan-Jackson, Mark, "A look at our bloody past," The Evening Telegram,May 28, 1995, p. 16.

Whitaker, Muriel, "Getting loused up in Newfoundland," Canadian Children's Literature, Number 22, 1981, pp. 50-53.

Oppel,Kenneth, "The best Canadian kids books of all time"",Quill and Quire,October 1997.

Gwyn,Sandra, "A sense of Place",Maclean's,June 23,1997.

Canadian Children's Book Centre, "Meet the Canadian Author, Kevin Major," 1992, 24 min. (live action video) To order, contact CCBC.