Harold Horwood

Harold Andrew Horwood (November 2, 1923 – April 16, 2006) was a Canadian novelist, non-fiction writer and politician from Newfoundland and Labrador. He served as the member of the Newfoundland House of Assembly for Labrador from 1949 to 1951. As an author, Horwood was most well known for his books Tomorrow Will Be Sunday and White Eskimo (1972).

He was educated at Prince of Wales Collegiate and worked at various labouring jobs for a number of years, which eventually led him to become a labour organizer. Around the same time, he and his brother Charlie founded a literary magazine called Protocol.

Writing career His first book, Tomorrow Will be Sunday, was published in 1966. Though it was a novel, Horwood acknowledged its autobiographical elements. The novel White Eskimo (1972), arguably his best-known work, was inspired in part by Esau Gillingham. All told, he wrote more than 20 books, including novels, history, natural history, biography, and autobiography. His contribution to Newfoundland literature does not consist only of the works he produced, but also in the example he provided to young writers at a time when little literature had been produced in the province. However, as his political writing and some of his literature indicates, he did not always hold Newfoundland culture, particularly that of the 'outports' or fishing villages, in high regard.

Other activities During the 1960s he became an opponent of industrialization and began to interest himself in various 'counter-cultural' concerns. For a year he ran an alternative school in St. John's, known as "Animal Farm".

He lived his last twenty-five years in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia. He and his wife Cornelia (Corky), whom he married in 1972, had two children, Andrew and Leah. He died of cancer at the age of 82 in Halifax.

Tomorrow Will Be Sunday - 1966, fiction The Foxes of Beachy Cove - 1967, named Best Scientific Book of the Year Newfoundland - 1969 Voices Underground - 1972 (editor) White Eskimo - 1972, fiction Beyond the Road: Portraits & Visions of Newfoundlanders - 1976 (with Stephen Taylor, photographer) The Colonial Dream: 1497/1760 - 1978 Bartlett: The Great Canadian Explorer - 1979, biography Only the Gods Speak - 1979 Tales of the Labrador Indians - 1981 (editor) Historic Newfoundland - 1986 Remembering Summer - 1987 Dancing on the Shore - 1987 Bandits and Privateers - 1988 Joey - 1989, biography The Magic Ground - 1996 Evening Light - 1997 A Walk in Dream Time: Growing Up in Old St. John's - 1997, autobiography Among the Lions: A Lamb in the Literary Jungle - 2000