Joan Baxter
Joan Baxter is a Canadian writer and journalist from Nova Scotia. Her book A Serious Pair of Shoes: An African Journal was the winner of the Evelyn Richardson Award for Non-Fiction at the Atlantic Book Awards in 2001.
Biography
Baxter's career in journalism was inspired by her travels in Guatemala during the Guatemalan Civil War, where she was conducting primatology research as part of her education. After returning to Canada, she earned a Bachelor of Journalism from the University of King's College in Halifax in 1982.[1] Baxter lived in Burkina Faso while the country was under the rule of Thomas Sankara; she left Burkina Faso in 1987 after Sankara was assassinated.[2]
Her 2000 book A Serious Pair of Shoes: An African Journal was the winner of the Evelyn Richardson Award for Non-Fiction at the 2001 Atlantic Book Awards.[3]
Baxter is a reporter at the Halifax Examiner, and conducts investigative journalism on the mining industry.[2]
Publications
- Baxter, Joan (2000). A Serious Pair of Shoes: An African Journal. Lawrencetown Beach, NS: Pottersfield Press. ISBN 978-1-8959-0030-9. OCLC 47056533. Search this book on
[3] - — (2008). Dust from our Eyes: An Unblinkered Look at Africa. Hamilton, ON: Wolsak and Wynn. ISBN 978-1-8949-8730-1. OCLC 229035864. Search this book on
- — (2017). The Mill: Fifty Years of Pulp and Protest. Foreword by May, Elizabeth. Lawrencetown Beach, NS: Pottersfield Press. ISBN 978-1-9882-8617-4. OCLC 988154806. Search this book on [4]
- — (2017). Seven Grains of Paradise: A Culinary Journey in Africa. Lawrencetown Beach, NS: Pottersfield Press. ISBN 978-1-9882-8602-0. OCLC 962129429. Search this book on
- — (2021). The Hermit of Gully Lake: The Life and Times of Willard Kitchener MacDonald. Lawrencetown Beach, NS: Pottersfield Press. ISBN 978-1-9897-2550-4. OCLC 1232083826. Search this book on
References
Citations
Sources
- Bradley, Susan (5 December 2017). "Pressure prompts store to axe event featuring book critical of Northern Pulp". CBC News. Nova Scotia: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 17 July 2025.
- [The Chronicle Herald] (11 December 2017). "Interest in The Mill on the rise". The Chronicle Herald. Halifax, NS: Saltwire Network. Archived from the original on 17 July 2025. Retrieved 17 July 2025. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - Devet, Robert (28 December 2017). "Book review: Joan Baxter's the Mill – Fifty years of pulp and protest". The Nova Scotia Advocate. Retrieved 17 July 2025.
- Devet, Robert (13 August 2019). "Joan Baxter: I don't think we are short of good journalists at all". The Nova Scotia Advocate. Retrieved 17 July 2025.
- Dwyer, Dee (7 October 2018). "Three Fall for Books Authors". Eastern Shore Cooperator. Musquodoboit Harbour, NS. Retrieved 17 July 2025.
- Gillis, John. "The Mill: An interview with NS author, Joan Baxter". The Inverness Oran. Inverness, NS: Inverness Communications. Retrieved 17 July 2025.
- [Global News] (10 January 2018). Author Joan Baxter talks about The Mill (Video). Global News. Corus Entertainment. Retrieved 17 July 2025.
- Hamilton, Graeme (26 December 2017). "Pulp mill accused of 'bullying' critics". The Windsor Star. Postmedia Network. Retrieved 17 July 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
- Leeder, Jessica (6 December 2017). "Pulp non-fiction: Why a book about a Nova Scotia pulp mill has set off a firestorm". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 17 July 2025.
- Richardson, Mark (3 June 2001). "Out of Africa". The Toronto Star. Torstar. Retrieved 17 July 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
- [University of King's College] (June 2018). "Joan Baxter: Author and Journalist". Community Stories. Halifax, NS: University of King's College. Retrieved 17 July 2025.
Further reading
- Joan Baxter (Video). Off the Page. 1 (12). Halifax, NS: Mount Saint Vincent University. 1999. Retrieved 17 July 2025 – via YouTube.
External links
- Official website
- Joan Baxter at Open Library
- Articles by Joan Baxter at the Halifax Examiner
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