D. R. MacDonald

{{short description|American novelist}}

{{Infobox writer

| name = D. R. MacDonald

| birth_name = David R. MacDonald

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| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1939}}

| birth_place = Boularderie, Nova Scotia

| occupation = Novelist, short story writer

| period = 1980s–present

| nationality = Canadian-American

| notableworks = Cape Breton Road, Lauchlin of the Bad Heart

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D. R. MacDonald is the pen name of David R. MacDonald, a Canadian-American writer who publishes novels and short stories.[http://www.quillandquire.com/authors/profile.cfm?article_id=8072 "D.R. MacDonald: Homing instinct"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140226192104/http://www.quillandquire.com/authors/profile.cfm?article_id=8072 |date=2014-02-26 }}. Quill & Quire, October 2007. Born on Boularderie Island, Nova Scotia and raised in Ohio, he is a professor emeritus of creative writing at Stanford University.[https://web.archive.org/web/20130911101211/http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-07-29/entertainment/40887901_1_the-ice-bridge-attraction-beauty "New fiction: 'The Ice Bridge,' by D.R. MacDonald"]. The Washington Post, July 29, 2013. He still spend summers at the family homestead in Cape Breton Island, which he purchased in 1971, and his fiction is set in Cape Breton.

His novel Lauchlin of the Bad Heart was a longlisted nominee for the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2007.