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A 3 page research paper that reports on the life and career of Canadian children's literature author Glen Huser. The writer offers Huser's basic biographical information, but focuses primarily on his career as a writer by briefly discussing his novels. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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metal engraving, scrimshaw on bone)" and his mother wrote poetry and stories, as well as taught school (Glen Huser). While biographical sources sometimes assert that Huser was born in Ashmont,
Alberta, he was in fact born in Elk Point, due to the fact that his hometown did not have a hospital (Jenkinson). Nevertheless, Huser, born on February 1, 1943, grew
up in Ashmont, a small town of about "78 people and critters" (Jenkinson). Remembering his childhood, Huser comments that he always wanted to be someplace where he could find books,
which was "hit and miss" in such a small town (Jenkinson). When his family moved to Edmonton in 1959, Husers final year of high school, having access to the Edmonton
libraries was a revelation for him. But while Huser longed for city life as a child, his books draw from his small town childhood. While Husers first career was
as a teacher, he never ceased writing and, in the early 1970s, enrolled in a course taught by the renowned Canadian novelist W.O. Mitchell (Glen Huser). This was a life-changing
decision. It was from Mitchell that Huser learned to turn to his own experiences for meaningful material for his fiction. It was not long before Husers efforts at fiction were
winning competitions and his short stories were being published in Canadian literary magazines. Husers first novel, Grace Lake, was drawn from having attended church camps in the summer as
an adolescent. His first young adult novel, Touch of the Clown, was drawn from his knowledge of young people that he gleaned from his years of teaching (Glen Huser). Also,
Touch of the Clown was also modeled, to some extent, on one of Husers personal friends, "Nion, who had starred as a clown in Stratford, Halifaxs Neptune Theater and Edmontons
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