Complex sentence: Alistair MacLeod, (July 20,1936--April 20,2014) was an acclaimed Canadian novelist, short story writer and academic whose 1999 novel "No Great Mischief" was voted Atlantic Canada's greatest book of all time.
Split into simpler sentences: Alistair MacLeod, (July 20,1936--April 20,2014) was an acclaimed Canadian novelist, short story writer and academic. Although he is known as a master of the short story, MacLeod's 1999 novel "No Great Mischief" was voted Atlantic Canada's greatest book of all time.