Harold Andrew Horwood (November 2, 1923 – April 16, 2006) was a Canadian novelist, non-fiction writer and politician from Newfoundland and Labrador. He served as the member of the Newfoundland House of Assembly for Labrador from 1949 to 1951. As an author, Horwood was most well known for his books Tomorrow Will Be Sunday (1966) and White Eskimo (1972).

He was educated at Prince of Wales Collegiate and worked at various labouring jobs for a number of years, which eventually led him to become a labour organizer. Around the same time, he and his brother Charlie founded a literary magazine called Protocol.

Writing career

His first book, Tomorrow Will be Sunday, was published in 1966. Though it was a novel, Horwood acknowledged its autobiographical elements. The novel White Eskimo (1972), arguably his best-known work, was inspired in part by Esau Gillingham. All told, he wrote more than 20 books, including novels, history, natural history, biography, and autobiography. His contribution to Newfoundland literature does not consist only of the works he produced, but also in the example he provided to young writers at a time when little literature had been produced in the province. However, as his political writing and some of his literature indicates, he did not always hold Newfoundland culture, particularly that of the 'outports' or fishing villages, in high regard.

Other activities

During the 1960s he became an opponent of industrialization and began to interest himself in various 'counter-cultural' concerns. For a year he ran an alternative school in St. John's, known as "Animal Farm".

He lived his last twenty-five years in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia. He and his wife Cornelia (Corky), whom he married in 1972, had two children, Andrew and Leah. He died of cancer at the age of 82 in Halifax.

  • Tomorrow Will Be Sunday - 1966, fiction
  • The Foxes of Beachy Cove - 1967, named Best Scientific Book of the Year
  • Newfoundland - 1969
  • Voices Underground - 1972 (editor)
  • White Eskimo - 1972, fiction
  • Beyond the Road: Portraits & Visions of Newfoundlanders - 1976 (with Stephen Taylor, photographer)
  • The Colonial Dream: 1497/1760 - 1978
  • Bartlett: The Great Canadian Explorer - 1979, biography
  • Only the Gods Speak - 1979
  • Tales of the Labrador Indians - 1981 (editor)
  • Historic Newfoundland - 1986
  • Remembering Summer - 1987
  • Dancing on the Shore - 1987
  • Bandits and Privateers - 1988
  • Joey - 1989, biography
  • The Magic Ground - 1996
  • Evening Light - 1997
  • A Walk in Dream Time: Growing Up in Old St. John's - 1997, autobiography
  • Among the Lions: A Lamb in the Literary Jungle - 2000

See also

  • List of University of Waterloo people

References

  • O'Flaherty, Patrick, The Rock Observed, University of Toronto Press, 1979.
  • Harold Horwood at The Canadian Encyclopedia
  • Horwoods Bibliography at the Newfoundland Writers' Guild