What's So Funny?: Lessons from Canada's Leacock Medal for Humour Writing

by Dick Bourgeois-Doyle

Overview

Is there a Canadian sense of humour? How can we write with more humour? And what can humour writing teach us about ourselves? These are questions explored in What’s So Funny? Lessons from Canada’s Leacock Medal for Humour Writing — Ottawa writer Dick Bourgeois-Doyle's personal review of books that have won our country’s premier award for humour writing.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781772570915
Publisher:	Burnstown Publishing House
Publication date:	04/01/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	255
File size:	16 MB
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About the Author

Dick Bourgeois–Doyle has contributed to many books, articles, TV features, and radio programs on the history of science and creativity in Canada. His biographies of inventive and heroic Canadians have been
dubbed “fascinating and inspiring . . . thorough and engaging” and have been celebrated by reviewers in Canada and abroad. His books include George J. Klein: The Great Inventor, Her Daughter the Engineer: The Life of Elsie Gregory MacGill (both Canadian Science Publishing–NRC Research Press publications) and Stubborn: Big Ed Caswell and the Line from the Valley to the Northland (General Store Publishing House). Bourgeois–Doyle also edited and co-wrote Renaissance II: Canadian Creativity and Innovation in the New Millennium. A former chief of staff and director of communications to the Minister of Science and Technology, he currently serves Secretary General of the National Research Council of Canada