Keeling, Nora Catherine

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Keeling, Nora Catherine

1933-2008

Nora Catherine Keeling Hall was born in Owen Sound, Ontario in 1933. In September 1952, she entered the University of Western Ontario in the Honours Program in French Language and Literature. After two years she left to attend the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London where she earned a diploma. She then went to Paris for five years to paint and write. By 1961 she had returned to language studies at the University of Western Ontario and graduated with a B.A. in 1963 and an M.A. in 1964. She continued in graduate studies to 1971 and has taught French both at the University of Western Ontario and at Fanshawe College in London. While Nora Keeling (as a student) had written dramas and poetry published in U.W.O.'s Folio she began publishing her short stories in 1971. Since then she has published three volumes of collected stories with Oberon Press.
Nora Keeling died of lung cancer on 4 March 2008.

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