"Joan Clark" Bachelor of Arts/BA, Doctor of Letters/D.Litt (hon.) (née "MacDonald") (born 12 October 1934) is a Canadian fiction author.

Born in Liverpool, Nova Scotia/Liverpool, Nova Scotia, Clark spent her youth in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. She attended Acadia University for its drama program, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree with English major in 1957. She has worked as a teacher.

Clark lived in Alberta for two decades and attended Edmonton, Alberta/Edmonton's University of Alberta. She and Edna Alford started the literary journal Dandelion (magazine)/Dandelion in that province in the mid-1970s. She eventually returned to Atlantic Canada, settling in Newfoundland.

Clark served on the jury of the 2001 Scotiabank Giller Prize/Giller Prize.

Clark lives in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador/St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. In 2010 she was made a Member of the Order of Canada.

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If you go north of Pine Island Road it's not pristine anymore. North of Kismet Parkway it's like a third world.

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He has taken on a lot and has been able to accomplish a lot. I think he's happy to get back to working in our community, but he never really left. He's very committed to his district.

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