Apr 10 2015
National Book Award winner for This House of Sky (memoir) and author of 13 novels, Ivan Doig died yesterday aged 75, of multiple myeloma. During the eight years of his illness, he wrote four novels - the last,Last Bus to Wisdom, will be published in August.
"Doig believed that ordinary people deserve to have their stories told, and he did that in fact and fiction," publisher Geoff Kloske writes. He adds: "Ivan was one of the greats. We have lost a friend, a beloved author, a national treasure."
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