Leon Rooke, CM (born September 11, 1934) is a Canadian novelist. He was born in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina in the United States. Educated at the University of North Carolina, he moved to Canada in 1969. He now lives in Toronto, Ontario. Rooke helped to found the Eden Mills Writers' Festival in 1989. In 2002, Rooke championed The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence in that year's edition of Canada Reads. Rooke's work also appears in Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts. In 2007, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada. More information...
According to PR-model, leonrooke.com is ranked 3,202,887th in multilingual Wikipedia, in particular this website is ranked 1,726,120th in English Wikipedia.
The website is placed before anaidaho.org and after pughousestudios.com in the BestRef global ranking of the most important sources of Wikipedia.
