Marriott, Joyce Anne

MARRIOTT, Joyce Anne, writer (b 5 Nov 1913, Victoria; d 10 Oct 1997, Vancouver). Her first book of poetry, The Wind Our Enemy (1939), describes prairie farm life during the Depression. Her second book, Calling Adventurers, won a GOV GEN'S LITERARY AWARD for poetry in 1941. (Emily CARR won the Gov Gen's Award for fiction that year—the first time writers from BC had ever won the award.) Marriott was a co-founder of the poetry magazine CONTEMPORARY VERSE. Following WWII she worked as a...

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