| Sandy Frances Duncan | |
| Other Names: | Sandy Frances Mary Duncan |
| Birth Place: | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Education: | University of British Columbia |
| Occupation: | Writer |
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| Awards: | Finalist for the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize in 2005 |
Sandy Frances Duncan is a Canadian writer of novels, mysteries, and short stories.[1] Her novel Gold Rush Orphan was among the finalists for the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize in 2005.[2] She has contributed short fiction to anthologies, including Dropped Threads: What We Aren't Told and Celebrating Canadian Women,[3] and to magazines including Makara, Northern Journey, and Canadian Fiction.[1]
Duncan, born in Vancouver in 1942, holds bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of British Columbia. She worked as a psychologist at Woodlands School, New Westminster, British Columbia; Burnaby Mental Health Center in Burnaby, and for the Metropolitan Health Department in Vancouver before turning to writing full-time in 1973.[1]
Four novels, co-authored with George Szanto, comprise the Islands Investigations International Mysteries, as follows: