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Brief Biography
Born near Boston, Steven Edwin Laffoley moved to Nova Scotia in 1982. He has worked as a curriculum writer, a university professor, and a school principal. As a freelance writer, columnist, and broadcaster, Steven has written dozens of articles and essays for more than 40 print and online magazines and newspapers, and has produced columns for the CBC. He lives with his wife and daughter in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Selected List of Publications
- Death Ship of Halifax Harbour. Pottersfield Press. ISBN 978-1-897426-09-8.
- "Well written and researched, Death Ship of Halifax Harbour makes for an entertaining and enlightening read." - The Nova Scotian
- "Readers will certainly be grateful for Laffoley's sure sense of storytelling and his journalistic eye for detail." - The Chronicle-Herald
- Hunting Halifax: In Search of History, Mystery and Murder. Pottersfield Press. ISBN 978-1-89500-93-4.
- Nominated for the Evelyn Richardson Prize for non-fiction and for the Atlantic Independent Booksellers' Choice Award.
- "[I]t's definitely worth the read." - The Halifax Herald
- "[O]ne of the region's better emerging voices." - Halifax Magazine
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- Mr. Bush, Angus and Me: Notes of an American-Canadian in the Age of Unreason. Pottersfield Press. ISBN 1-895900-75-1.
- "Laffoley's arresting and penetrative observations are often searing, but for all the darkness of his topic this is an entertaining and enlightening read." - Atlantic Books Today, Spring 2006.
