Writers and Artists
- Will Beauchamp, filmmaker
- Ted Bishop, author of Riding with Rilke
- Gil Cardinal, filmmaker
- Patrick Cox, famous shoe designer
- Brion Gysin, artist and writer
- Peter Hide, British-born sculptor, living in Edmonton since 1977
- Arthur Hiller, Hollywood film director and former president of the Director's Guild of America
- Carl Honoré grew up in Edmonton, journalist and author of In Praise of Slowness
- Mel Hurtig, publisher, author, and politician.
- Zillur Rahman John, Bangladeshi Canadian, internationally renowned mime and pantomime artist, director, teacher, researcher and author of several mime and pantomime books
- W. P. Kinsella, author of Shoeless Joe which became the film Field of Dreams and tournament Scrabble player
- Myrna Kostash, writer of eight books including "All of Baba's Children"
- Stewart Lemoine, playwright
- Marshall McLuhan, recipient of numerous awards and appointments, pioneer of media theory
- Richard Newman, writer, broadcaster, and reality TV star, best known for participating in the seventh series of the British version of Big Brother
- T. W. Peacocke, television and film director
- Robert Young Pelton, author
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Famous quotes containing the words writers and/or artists:
“If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works, with all the misconceptions, the omissions, the failures that any finished work of art implies.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“of artists dying in childbirth, wise-women charred at the stake,
centuries of books unwritten piled behind these shelves;
and we still have to stare into the absence
of men who would not, women who could not, speak
to our life—this still unexcavated hole
called civilization, this act of translation, this half-world.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)