Milton Terrence Kelly (born November 30, 1947) is a

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and playwright. Born in

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, Kelly attended

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and the

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. His first novel, ''I Do Remember The Fall'' (1977), was nominated for the

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. This book was followed by two novels from Black Moss Press followed: ''The More Loving One'' and ''The Ruined Season''. Kelly's third novel ''A Dream Like Mine'' (1987) won the Governor General's Award for fiction and was made into the movie ''Clearcut''. A book of poetry, ''Country You Can't Walk In'', won the first Toronto Arts Council Award. Two other novels with Stoddart followed, ''Out of the Whirlwind'' and ''Save Me Joe Louis'', as well as a book of short stories, ''All that Wild Wounding''. Among other collections M.T. Kelly's work was included in ''The Thinking Heart: Best Canadian Essays'' (1991) and ''The Saturday Night Traveller''. His play ''The Green Dolphin'' was performed at Theatre Passe Muraille. A frequent contributor to ''

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'', M.T. Kelly also worked as a reporter for the ''

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''. In 2000, when his wife, Madam Justice Lynn King was diagnosed with breast cancer, and his publisher of 30 years, General Publishing, went bankrupt, M.T. Kelly stopped publishing. Another contributing factor was the death of his friend, colleague, and sometime editor, author

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. Kelly remained silent after his wife's death in March 2005, but Exile Editions then re-printed ''A Dream Like Mine'' in its Canadian Classics series with an introduction by Canadian writer

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. Along with the reprinting of ''A Dream Like Mine'' Exile published a new book, ''Downriver'', which contained poetry, a memoir, and a short story about the people in the memoir. M.T. Kelly's papers are in the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library archives at the University of Toronto.

Bibliography

Novels

*''I Do Remember the Fall'' - 1977 *''The Ruined Season'' - 1982 *''A Dream Like Mine'' - 1987 *''Out of the Whirlwind'' - 1995 *''Save Me, Joe Louis'' - 1998

Short stories

*''The More Loving One'' - 1980 *''Breath Dances Between Them'' - 1991

Poetry

*''Country You Can't Walk In'' - 1979

Drama

*''The Green Dolphin'' play - 1982

External links

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