Rudy Wiebe

Rudy Wiebe was born near Fairholme, Saskatchewan in 1934. From the University of Alberta, he received a B.A. 1956 and a M.A. in Creative Writing in 1960. He studied under a Rotary International Fellowship at the University of Tuebingen in West Germany, and in 1962 he received a Bachelor of Theology degree from the Mennonite Brethren Bible College. In 1962ᆧ63 he was editor of the Mennonite Brethren Herald, a position which he resigned because of the controversy over his first novel,Peace Shall Destroy Many. From 1967 to 1992 he was Professor of Creative Writing and English at the University of Alberta. Wiebe has published twenty-five books, including nine novels and the non-fiction best-sellerStolen Life: The Journey of a Cree Woman, co-authored with Yvonne Johnson. He was awarded the Governor General’s Award for fiction forThe Temptations Of Big Bear in 1973, and again in 1994 forA Discovery Of Strangers. He is also the winner of the Lorne Pierce Gold Metal of the Royal Society of Canada for his contribution to Canadian literature ླ87). Wiebe has served as chairman of both the Writer’s Guild of Alberta and the Writers’ Union of Canada. He now lives in Edmonton, Alberta.

Books by Rudy Wiebe

Robert Kroetsch

Where the Truth Lies

Come Back

Extraordinary Canadians: Big Bear

Rudy Wiebe: Collected Stories, 1955–2010

Extraordinary Canadians Big Bear

The Blue Mountains of China

Of This Earth

First and Vital Candle

Hidden Buffalo

The Scorched-Wood People

The Mad Trapper

Sweeter Than All The World

Chinook Christmas

Temptations Of Big Bear

Stolen Life

A Discovery Of Strangers

River Of Stone

The Temptations of Big Bear

Alberta