Harold Andrew Horwood, CM (November 2, 1923 – April 16, 2006) was a Newfoundland and Labrador novelist, non-fiction writer and politician.
He pursued this goal despite the objections of his parents, with whom he did not get along, drawing more inspiration from the life of his paternal grandfather, John Horwood, a sea captain.
[2] Beginning in 1948 he worked closely with Joey Smallwood in the campaign to bring Newfoundland into Confederation.
The novel White Eskimo (1972), arguably his best-known work, was inspired in part by Esau Gillingham.
However, as his political writing and some of his literature indicates, he did not always hold Newfoundland culture, particularly that of the 'outports' or fishing villages, in high regard.