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{{Short description|Canadian writer}}
{{BLP sources|date=September 2019}}
{{Infobox writer <!-- For more information see [[:Template:Infobox Writer/doc]]. -->
| name = Marsha Canham
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| birth_place = [[Toronto
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| occupation = Novelist
| language = [[English language|English]]
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==Biography==
Canham was born in [[Toronto]], Ontario, Canada, where she resides,<ref name=NAL>{{Cite web|url=http://nalauthors.com/author27 |title=NAL Authors: Marsha Canham |work=NAL Authors |accessdate=September 9, 2013}}</ref> to a policeman and a homemaker.<ref name=Carolynlost>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2010/11/06/why_carolyn_parrish_lost_the_election.html |title=Why Carolyn Parrish lost the election |work=[[Toronto Star]] |first=Jennifer |last=Yang |date=November 6, 2010 |accessdate=September 9, 2013}}</ref> Marsha has one son and two grandchildren.<ref name=NAL/> Her sister is Canadian politician [[Carolyn Parrish]], elected Mayor of Mississauga in 2024.
In 1984, Marsha published her first historical romance, titled ''China Rose'', and has seventeen such novels in print, including one contemporary romance. She is best known for her award-winning romance trilogies, one set in Scotland: ''The Pride of Lions'', ''The Blood of Roses'', and ''Midnight Honor''. The other is set in Medieval England and deals with her own interpretation of the [[Robin Hood]] legend: ''[[Through a Dark Mist]]'', ''[[In the Shadow of Midnight]]'', and ''[[The Last Arrow]]''. She is currently working on the fourth book of her pirate wolf saga that began with ''Across A Moonlit Sea'' ''The Iron Rose'' and
She has won two ''[[Romantic Times]]'' Lifetime Achievement Awards.<ref name=NAL/> plus multiple individual awards including being listed as "One of the seven best mass market fiction books of the year" by Publishers Weekly for The Iron Rose.
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===As Marsha Canham===
====Single
*''China Rose'',
*''Bound by the Heart'', 1984
*''The Wind and the Sea'', 1986
*''Under the Desert Moon'', 1992
*''Straight for the Heart'', 1995
*''Pale Moon Rider'', 1998
*''Swept Away'', 1999
*''The Dragon Tree'' (previously published as ''My Forever Love''), 2004
====Scotland
#''The Pride of Lions'', 1988
#''The Blood of Roses'', 1989
#''Midnight Honor'', 2001
====Robin Hood
#''[[Through a Dark Mist]]'', 1991
#''[[In the Shadow of Midnight]]'', 1994
#''[[The Last Arrow]]'', 1997
#''[[My Forever Love]]'', 2003
====Dante Pirates
#''Across a Moonlit Sea'', 1996
#''The Iron Rose'', 2003
#''The Following Sea'', 2012
#''The Far Horizon'', 2017
====Short stories and novellas====
*''What the Heart Sees'' (published in the anthology ''Masters of Seduction''), 2011
===As Marsha M. Canham===
====Single
*''Dark and Dangerous'', 1992
==References and sources==
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*[http://www.marshacanham.com/ Homepage]
*[http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/c/marsha-canham/ List of books] in FantasticFiction
*[http://nalauthors.com/author27 Biography] at ''New American Library''
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[[Category:Canadian women
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[[Category:Women romantic fiction writers]]
[[Category:Writers from Toronto]]
[[Category:20th-century Canadian novelists]]
[[Category:20th-century Canadian women writers]]
[[Category:21st-century Canadian novelists]]
[[Category:21st-century Canadian women writers]]
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