Editing Nova Scotia (section)

===Literature===
There are numerous [[List of people from Nova Scotia|Nova Scotian]] authors who have achieved international fame: [[Thomas Chandler Haliburton]] (''[[Sam Slick|The Clockmaker]]''), [[Alistair MacLeod]] (''[[No Great Mischief]]''), [[Evelyn M. Richardson|Evelyn Richardson]] ''(We Keep A Light)'', [[Margaret Marshall Saunders]] ''([[Beautiful Joe]]),'' [[Laurence Bradford Dakin|Laurence B. Dakin]] ''(Marco Polo),'' and [[Joshua Slocum]] ''([[Sailing Alone Around the World]]).'' Other authors include [[Johanna Skibsrud]] ''(The Sentimentalists),'' [[Alden Nowlan]] ''(Bread, Wine and Salt),'' [[George Elliott Clarke]] ''(Execution Poems),'' [[Lesley Choyce]] ''(Nova Scotia: Shaped by the Sea),'' [[Thomas Raddall]] ''(Halifax: Warden of the North),'' [[Donna Morrissey]] ''(Kit's Law),'' and [[Frank Parker Day]] ''([[Rockbound]]).''{{citation needed|date=March 2025}}

Nova Scotia has also been the subject of numerous literary books. Some of the international best-sellers are: ''Last Man Out: The Story of the Springhill Mining Disaster'' (by [[Melissa Fay Greene]]); ''Curse of the Narrows: The [[Halifax Explosion]] 1917'' (by Laura MacDonald); "In the Village" (short story by [[Pulitzer Prize]]–winning author [[Elizabeth Bishop]]); and [[National Book Critics Circle Award]] winner ''[[Rough Crossings]]'' (by [[Simon Schama]]). Other authors who have written novels about Nova Scotian stories include: [[Linden MacIntyre]] (''[[The Bishop's Man]]''); [[Hugh MacLennan]] (''[[Barometer Rising]]''); [[Ernest Buckler]] (''The Valley and the Mountain''); [[Archibald MacMechan]] (''Red Snow on Grand Pré''), [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]] (long poem ''[[Evangeline]]''); [[Lawrence Hill]] (''[[The Book of Negroes (novel)|The Book of Negroes]]'') and [[John Mack Faragher]] (''Great and Nobel Scheme'').{{citation needed|date=March 2025}}