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34 cm of textual records
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Lesley Choyce was born in Riverside, New Jersey, in 1951. He studied at East Carolina University and Livingston College before receiving his Bachelor of Arts from Rutgers University and Masters degrees from both Montclair State College and City University of New York Graduate Centre. Choyce immigrated to Canada in 1978, where he worked variously as a farmer, journalist, rehabilitation counsellor and janitor.
His writing encompasses a variety of genres: autobiography, history, fiction, young adult fiction, philosophy and poetry. He has also worked in film, music, radio and television, hosting and co-producing Vision TV's "Off the Page with Lesley Choyce." He is the founding director of Pottersfield Press and of the literary magazine The Pottersfield Portfolio. His own work has been translated into Spanish, German, French and Danish and he has received both the Dartmouth Book Award and the Ann Connor Brimer Award for outstanding contributions to Atlantic Canadian children's literature.
Choyce teaches part time in the English Department and the Transition Year Program at Dalhousie University. Based in Lawrencetown Beach, Nova Scotia, he is well-known as a year-round surfer and a founding member of the 1990s spoken-word rock band, The Surf Poets.
Bibliography
Memoir Transcendental Anarchy: Confessions of a Metaphysical Tourist (1993) Driving Minnie's Piano: Memoirs of a Surfing Life in Nova Scotia (2006) Seven Ravens: Two Summers in a Life by the Sea (2009)
Fiction Eastern Sure (1980) Downwind (1984) Billy Botzweiler's Last Dance and Other Stories (1984) Conventional Emotions (1985) The Dream Auditor: Short Stories (1986) Coming Up for Air (1988) The Second Season of Jonas MacPherson (1989) Magnificent Obsessions (1991) The Ecstasy Conspiracy (1992) The Republic of Nothing (1994) Dance the Rocks Ashore (1997) World Enough (1998) The Summer of Apartment X (1999) Clear Cold Morning (2002) Shoulder the Sky (2002) Sea of Tranquility (2003) Smoke and Mirrors (2004) Thunderbowl (2004) Deconstructing Dylan (2006) The End Of The World As We Know It (2007) The Book of Michael (2008) Reaction (2010)
Non-fiction An Avalanche of Ocean (1987) December Six/The Halifax Solution (1988) Nova Scotia Shaped by the Sea: A Living History (1997) The Coasts of Canada (2002)
Children's Fiction Skateboard Shakedown (1989) The Hungry Lizards (1990) Wave Watch (1990) Wrong Time, Wrong Place (1991) Some Kind of Hero (1991) Margin of Error (1992) Clearcut Danger (1992) Full Tilt (1993) Good Idea Gone Bad (1993) The Dark End of Dream Street (1994) Big Burn (1995) Go for it Carrie (1997) Carrie's Crowd (1998) Famous at Last (1998) Road Rage (1999) Far Enough Island (2000) Carrie's Camping Adventure (2001) Carrie Loses Her Nerve (2003) Skate Freak (2008) Living Outside the Lines (2009) Random (2010) Reckless (2010) Dumb Luck (2011) Rat (2012)
Poetry Re-Inventing the Wheel (1982) The End of Ice (1985) To the Top of the Heart (1986) The Coastline of Forgetting (1995) Beautiful Sadness (1998) Caution to the Wind (2000)
Custodial history
Records were in the custody of the donor (Lesley Choyce) until they were received by the Archives in June 2013.
Scope and content
This accession contains primarily draft typescripts of short fiction and related research notes and correspondence. There are also records related to television and film proposals, including synopses and scripts. Other materials include copies of media reviews and miscellaneous business and personal correspondence.
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Records were refoldered and labelled; files remain in the order in which they were received from the donor.
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- English
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There are no access restrictions on these materials. All materials are open for research.
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Materials do not circulate and must be used in the Archives and Special Collections Reading Room. Materials may be under copyright. Contact departmental staff for guidance on reproduction.
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See Pottersfield Press (MS-4-254) and Pottersfield Portfolio (MS-2-684).
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Further accruals are expected.
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Preferred citation: [Identification of item], Lesley Choyce, MS-2-596.2013-042, Box [box number], Folder [folder number], Dalhousie University Archives, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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This series description comes from the Dalhousie University Archives Catalog. The complete, original description is available there.