Nova Scotia has also been the subject of numerous literary books . Some of the international best-sellers are : '' Last Man Out : The Story of the Springhill Mining Disaster '' ( by Melissa Fay Greene ) ; '' Curse of the Narrows : The Halifax Explosion 1917 '' ( by Laura MacDonald ) ; " In the Village " ( short story by Pulitzer Prize – winning author Elizabeth Bishop ) ; and National Book Critics Circle Award winner '' Rough Crossings '' ( by Simon Schama ) . Other authors who have written novels about Nova Scotian stories include : Linden MacIntyre ( '' The Bishop 's Man '' ) ; Hugh MacLennan ( '' Barometer Rising '' ) ; Rebecca McNutt ( '' Mandy and Alecto '' ) ; Ernest Buckler ( '' The Valley and the Mountain '' ) ; Archibald MacMechan ( '' Red Snow on Grand Pré '' ) , Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ( long poem '' Evangeline '' ) ; Lawrence Hill ( '' The Book of Negroes '' ) and John Mack Faragher ( '' Great and Nobel Scheme '' )
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