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Daniel Quinn (born 1935 in Omaha, Nebraska) is a United States writer.Quinn received an extensive education at three different universities: Saint Louis University, University of Vienna, Austria, and Loyola University of Chicago, Illinois. He abandoned a career as a publisher in 1975 to become a freelance writer. Quinn is best known for his book Ishmael, which won the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship Award in 1991. This fellowship was established to encourage authors to seek "creative and positive solutions to global problems." Ishmael is the first of a trilogy including The Story of B and My Ishmael.
He is the author of the following books:
- Ishmael
- The Story of B
- My Ishmael
- (autobiography)
- Beyond Civilization
- The Man Who Grew Young (graphic novel)
- After Dachau
- The Holy
Currently he lives in Houston, Texas with his wife Rennie.
Daniel Seamus Quinn is an NDP candidate at the Canadian federal election, 2004, in the riding of Lac-Saint-Louis, Quebec, which, until the 2004 federal elections, was considered the safest Liberal seat in Canada. He was born in 1983 in Montreal, Quebec. He has lived in Pointe-Claire, Quebec since 1984.
Quinn attended St. Thomas High School, where he started his political career as the Student Council President. After successfully completing the school's International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme, he went on to study Liberal Arts at John Abbott College. Currently, he is studying History and Political Science at Concordia University in Montreal.
Quinn took an interest in politics at a very young age. In addition to serving on his high school's Student Council for five consecutive years, he has been actively involved in the following political parties: the Liberal Party of Quebec; the Montreal Island Citizens' Union; the Green Party of Quebec; and the New Democratic Party of Canada. Though he was a member of a multitude of political parties, by his second year of college he was a convinced social democrat.
In early 2003, he founded the Lac-Saint-Louis Riding Association of the New Democratic Party of Canada. On January 26, 2004, he was nominated as the riding's NDP candidate, defeating Ryan Young in a very close vote. In the June 28, 2004, federal elections, Quinn came in fourth place, recieving 7.55% of the votes. In the 2000 federal election, the Lac-Saint-Louis candidate had recieved only 1.2% of the votes.
As of September 2004, the riding of Lac-Saint-Louis had the largest NDP membership in Quebec This is an Article on Daniel Quinn. Page Contains Information, Facts Details or Explanation Guide About Daniel Quinn External links