JOSEPH
BOYDEN's first novel, Three Day Road, was selected for the Today
Show Book Club, won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, the CBA
Libris Fiction Book of the Year Award, and the Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First
Novel Award, and was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for
Fiction. His second novel, Through Black Spruce, was awarded the
Scotiabank Giller Prize and named the Canadian Booksellers Association
Fiction Book of the Year; it also earned him the CBA's Author of the Year
Award. His most recent novel, The Orenda, won Canada Reads and
was nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General's
Award for Fiction. Boyden divides his time between Northern Ontario and
Louisiana.