World Literature Today, April 1st, 2003
FOR EACH OF LEON ROOKE'S NEARLY THREE HUNDRED PUBLISHED STORIES, there are another two unpublished. Those six hundred, Rooke would say, represent the more interesting part. Rooke was born in 1934 in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina. He and his wife, Constance, moved to Victoria, British Columbia, in 1969, before settling down in Eden Mills, Ontario, where he founded the Eden Mills Literary Festival in 1989. He began his career producing plays and wrote scripts such as Krokodile (1973) and Sword play (1974). He has published numerous short-story collections, including Last One Home Sleeps in the ...
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