Nancy Bauer

1934-

Nancy (Luke) Bauer was born in Chelmsford, Massachusetts (near Boston), in 1934. She received her BA from Mount Holyoke College in 1956. Bauer and her husband, Bill (writer and professor) moved to Fredericton, New Brunswick in 1965. Bauer was a member of “The Ice House Gang,” which was also called the “Tuesday Night Group”.  Out of these gatherings came the idea for a chapbook series, for which Bauer was the editor and publisher. Twenty-four chapbooks were published in this series, which featured local writers.  The Maritime Writers' Workshop, which was founded by Bauer in 1974, also came from Tuesday Night Group, as well as the idea to found the Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick. In later years, Bauer was a part of Gallery Connexion, an artist-run centre that was originally located in the basement of the Justice Building in downtown Fredericton. Bauer has published five novels. Her first, Flora, Write this Down (1983), was the first novel to be published by Goose Lane Editions. Her next two novels, Wise-Ears (1985) and The Opening Eye (1988), were both published by Oberon Press in Ottawa. Her last two books, Samara the Wholehearted (1991) and The Irrational Doorways of Mr. Gerard (1994), were again published by Goose Lane Editions. Bauer has contributed many short stories to a variety of literary magazines in the Maritimes, as well as Canadian Fiction Magazine, and has published poetry in the The Fiddlehead. In 1982 she received the second prize in the CBC Literary Awards for her short story Prologue, and in 1999 she won the Alden Nowlan Award for Excellence in Literary Arts in New Brunswick. She has written articles and reviews for Arts Atlantic, The Fiddlehead, the New Brunswick Reader, and Salon.  A former writing instructor and writer-in-residence at the University of New Brunswick, Bauer blogs about and write articles on the arts.

Predominant New Brunswick Residences:

Fredericton

Archival Material

• Nancy Bauer fonds
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  Location

  University of New Brunswick Archives & Special Collections

  Website/Catalogue Record

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  Retrieval Number

  MG L 39

  Date Range of Material

  1949-2018

  Extent

  4.3 m textual records
  56 photographs ; 12.5 x 17.5 cm and smaller
  120 slides
  15 computer disks
  12 posters

  Scope and Content Note

  Fonds consists of published and unpublished manuscripts and typescripts written by Nancy Bauer, correspondence, and material created by Bauer as a member of various New Brunswick arts organizations.