Kildare Dobbs

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Kildare Robert Eric Dobbs (born in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India in 1923) is a Canadian short story and travel writer. He currently lives in Toronto, Ontario.

He was educated in Ireland and later, spent 5 years in the Royal Navy during the Second World War. After the war he worked in the British Colonial Service in Tanganyka.He came to Canada in 1952 and became a teacher, editor for Macmillan, managing editor of Saturday Night, and book editor of The Toronto Star.

In 2000, he was awarded the Order of Ontario.

[edit] Works

  • Running to Paradise - 1962
  • Reading the Time - 1968
  • Canada 1964 1965
  • The Great Fur Opera - 1970
  • Pride and Fall: A Novella and Six Stories - 1981
  • Historic Canada1984
  • Coastal Canada - 1985
  • Anatolian Suite: Travels and Discursions in Turkey - 1989
  • Ribbon of Highway: By Bus Along the Trans-Canada - 1991
  • Smiles and Chukkers & Other Vanities - 1994
  • The Eleventh Hour: Poems for the Third Millennium - 1997
  • Casablanca: The Poem - 1999
  • Running the Rapids - A Writer's Life - 2005
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