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The Story

Pauline Johnson was born on the Six Nations Reserve in Ontario, Canada. Was she American?, British?, or Canadian? Was she Mohawk?, English?, or Mixed? She added up her assets & her liabilities and decided that the Pauline the world would see would be ‘Pauline the performance-artist’ – ‘Pauline on stage’. As for the real Pauline, she would keep that to herself.

The Making of Know Who I Am

This journal records the author’s reflections on the process of the crafting of the novel as it evolved through the stages of planning, writing, editing and polishing. It constitutes an effort to be as conscious as possible of the process whereby the single idea that suggested the topic of the novel was expanded into a complex work of art. Topics range from the nuts and bolts of novel-building to the nature of the novel as an art-form.

Planning Know Who I Am

During the writing of the novel, the author kept a hand-written notebook which records the day-by-day development of the novel as it found its shape and style. The notebook – now in print form – reveals how a vast cluster of thoughts was sifted, selected, structured and polished into novel-form.

The Project

Together, this novel, journal and notebook comprise the twenty-fifth installment in an on-going novel-writing project in which the author is exploring the concept of form and meaning in the novel, and of the novel as a form of expression in the 21st Century. All of the published journals and notebooks are available for free download.