A Boy of Good Breeding

about the author

MIRIAM TOEWS is the author of three novels: Summer of My Amazing Luck (nominated for the Stephen Leacock Award and winner of the John Hirsch Award), A Boy of Good Breeding (winner of the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award) and A Complicated Kindness (winner of the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, and finalist for the Giller Prize) and one work of non-fiction: Swing Low: A Life (winner of the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award and the Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction). She has written for CBC, This American Life (NPR), Saturday Night, Geist, Canadian Geographic, Open Letters, and The New York Times Magazine, and received the National Magazine Awards Gold Medal for Humour. Miriam Toews lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba.