Douglas Glover (writer)

Douglas Glover BA, M.Litt., MFA (born 14 November 1948 in Simcoe, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian writer. He was raised on his family's tobacco farm just outside Waterford, Ontario. He has published five short story collections, four novels (including Elle which won the 2003 Governor-General's Award for Fiction), a book of essays called Notes Home from a Prodigal Son, and The Enamoured Knight, a book-length meditation on Don Quixote and novel form.

He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy from York University in 1969 and an M.Litt. in philosophy at the University of Edinburgh in 1971. He taught philosophy at the University of New Brunswick in 1971-72 and then worked as a reporter and editor on newspapers in Saint John, New Brunswick; Peterborough, Ontario; Montreal, Quebec; and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, until 1979. In 1982, he received a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Iowa's Iowa Writers' Workshop.

Since the early 1990s, Glover has lived in Wilton, New York teaching at the Vermont College of Fine Arts, Skidmore College, Colgate University, and the University of Albany. He was the 2005 McGee Professor of Writing at Davidson College. He has been writer-in-residence at the University of New Brunswick, the University of Lethbridge and Utah State University. From October, 1994, to October, 1996, he was host of a weekly radio interview program called The Book Show at WAMC in Albany, NY. From 1994 to 2006, he edited the annual anthology Best Canadian Stories. In 2010, he founded the online literary magazine, Numéro Cinq.

He has two sons Jacob Glover and Jonah Glover.[1] [2] [3]

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  1. ^ The Canadian Encyclopedia Retrieved Oct 3, 2011.
  2. ^ Stone, Bruce The Art of Desire, The Fiction of Douglas Glover, Oberon Press, Ottawa, 2004.
  3. ^ Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series, Vol. 23, Gale Research, 1996. pp. 81-97.

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