For the fictional character from Bones (TV series) see Jack Hodgins (Bones)
Jack Hodgins (born October 3, 1938) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer.
Born in the Comox Valley, British Columbia, he attended the University of British Columbia, where he was encouraged by Earle Birney. He worked as a high school teacher of English in Nanaimo, British Columbia, before taking a position at the University of Victoria in the Creative Writing Department.
Critically acclaimed, among his best received works is Broken Ground (1998), a historical novel set after the First World War, for which he received the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.
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