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For Those about To Write:How I Learned To Love Books and Why I Had To Write them
[Paperback - 2007]
dave bidini
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Category: Children
Sub-category: Language & Grammar
Additional Category: Children Business & Careers
Publisher: Tundra Books | ISBN: 9780887767692 | Pages: 136
Shipping Weight: .152 | Dimensions: 5.13 x .36 x 7.64 inches

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Dave Bidini’s quirky personal path to becoming a writer (as well as a well-known rock musician and sports enthusiast) began when he was very young and loved to pick at the typewriter.

About the Author

Author and musician Dave Bidini is the only person to have been nominated for a Gemini, Genie and Juno as well CBC's Canada Reads. A founding member of Rheostatics, he has written 10 books, including On a Cold Road, Tropic of Hockey, Around the World in 57 1/2 Gigs, and Home and Away. He has made two Gemini Award-nominated documentaries and his play, the Five Hole Stories, was staged by One Yellow Rabbit Performance Company, touring the country in 2008. His third book, Baseballissimo, is being developed for the screen by Jay Baruchel, and, in 2010, he won his third National Magazine Award, for "Travels in Narnia." He writes a weekly column for the Saturday Post and, in 2011, he published his latest book, Writing Gordon Lightfoot. 

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