Lorna Schultz Nicholson is a
Canadian author of several children's books about sports.
Raised in
St. Catharines
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,
Ontario, Nicholson obtained a
B.Sc.
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The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Science was the University of ...
in Human Performance from the
University of Victoria. With her degree, she worked as the Fitness and Recreation Co-ordinator at the University of Victoria where she also coached rowing.
Nicholson now resides in
Calgary
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,
Alberta with her husband, former
Hockey Canada
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President
Bob Nicholson. She has been an active presence in Canadian media, on television, radio and in print.
Writing career
Nicholson began writing as a co-host and script writer for an aerobic television show in
Victoria,
British Columbia. After moving to
Ottawa
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, Ontario, she worked as a health and lifestyles reporter for a news show and researcher for a sports show, ''Donohue's Legends'', at
CJOH
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television. She later hosted, produced and wrote all the material for her own syndicated radio show in Ottawa, ''Family Time''.
While having shared her keen sense of sports and community in all her work, Nicholson described that only when she sat down at her computer to write fiction did she feel peace. The author of several sports novels for children, she also writes mystery novels and scripts for adults. She is currently the vice-president for the Prairie region for the Crime Writers of Canada. Nicholson is the author of the Intuko/Angie Melville adult mysteries.
Bibliography
Children's fiction
*''Int.'' Halifax: Lorimer, 2004.
*''Roughing .'' Halifax: Lorimer, 2004.
*''Against the Boards.'' Halifax: Lorimer, 2005.
*''Delaying the Game.'' Halifax: Lorimer, 2005.
*''Northern Star.'' Halifax: Lorimer, 2006.
*''
Too Many Men.'' Halifax: Lorimer, 2006.
*''Cross-Check!'' Halifax: Lorimer, 2007.
*''H.E.A.R.T.'' H.B. Fenn, 2007. (forthcoming)
Mystery novels
*''See Fox Run.'' Echelon, 2006.
References
External links
Official Website
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Canadian women sportswriters
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Canadian children's writers
People from St. Catharines
Writers from Ontario
Canadian women children's writers