Graeme Gibson

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Graeme Gibson
Born	Graeme Gibson (1934-08-09) 9 August 1934 London, Ontario
Genres	novel

Graeme C. Gibson, CM (born 9 August 1934) is a Canadian novelist who lives in Toronto, Ontario. He is a Member of the Order of Canada (1992) and was one of the organizers of the Writer's Union of Canada (chair, 1974–75). He is also a founder of the Writers' Trust of Canada, a non-profit literary organization that seeks to encourage Canada's writing community. He has a long-term relationship with novelist and poet Margaret Atwood which began in 1973. They moved to a farm near Alliston, Ontario, north of Toronto, where their daughter Eleanor Jess Atwood Gibson was born in 1976. The family returned to Toronto in 1980.

In 1996 he decided to stop writing novels. At the time he was working on a novel titled Moral Disorder. Atwood borrowed the title for her collection of short stories published in 2006. ^[1] He is a former council member of World Wildlife Fund Canada and is chairman of Pelee Island Bird Observatory.^[2]

Bibliography

Five Legs - 1969
Communion - 1971
Eleven Canadian Novelists - 1973
Perpetual Motion - 1982
Gentleman Death - 1993
The Bedside Book of Birds - 2005
The Bedside Book of Beasts - 2009

Notes

↑ See the Acknowledgements at the end of Margaret Atwood, Moral Disorder, McClelland and Stewart, 2006.
↑ http://www.mcclelland.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=9990

External links

Graeme Gibson's entry in The Canadian Encyclopedia

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 111843547 LCCN: n83181137 ISNI: 0000 0001 1083 6176 GND: 140953388 SUDOC: 028589513 BNF: cb12039486w NKC: mzk2008479544

Persondata
Name	Gibson, Graeme
Alternative names
Short description	Canadian writer
Date of birth	9 August 1934
Place of birth	London, Ontario
Date of death
Place of death

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