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Dundurn Books
Dundurn Press is one of the largest Canadian-owned book publishing companies of adult fiction and non-fiction. The company publishes Canadian literature, history, biography, politics and arts. Dundurn has about 2500 books in print, and averages around one hundred new titles each year. Dundurn Press was established in 1972 by Kirk Howard. In 2009, Dundurn forged a co-publishing partnership with the Ontario Genealogical Society, and in 2011, Dundurn purchased Napoleon & Company and Blue Butterfly Books. In 2013, Dundurn acquired Thomas Allen Publishers, the publishing branch of Thomas Allen & Son Limited. Thomas Allen & Son Limited is a Canadian book distributor, and remains Canada's oldest family-owned and operated distributor, having been in continuous operation for over 90 years. Dundurn Press authors include Lincoln Alexander, Linda McQuaig, Ted Barris, Michael Coren, Xue Yiwei Xue Yiwei (, born in 1964) is a Chinese-born Canadian author. His hometown is Changsha, Hunan, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Dundurn may refer to: * Dundurn, Saskatchewan, Canada **CFD Dundurn, a Canadian Forces facility near Dundurn, Saskatchewan * Rural Municipality of Dundurn No. 314, Saskatchewan, Canada * Dundurn, Scotland, an ancient Pictish fort, in Strathearn, Scotland * Dundurn Castle, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada * Dundurn Press Dundurn Press is one of the largest Canadian-owned book publishing companies of adult fiction and non-fiction. The company publishes Canadian literature, history History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the Hum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Allen & Son
Dundurn Press is one of the largest Canadian-owned book publishing companies of adult fiction and non-fiction. The company publishes Canadian literature, history, biography, politics and arts. Dundurn has about 2500 books in print, and averages around one hundred new titles each year. Dundurn Press was established in 1972 by Kirk Howard. In 2009, Dundurn forged a co-publishing partnership with the Ontario Genealogical Society, and in 2011, Dundurn purchased Napoleon & Company and Blue Butterfly Books. In 2013, Dundurn acquired Thomas Allen Publishers, the publishing branch of Thomas Allen & Son Limited. Thomas Allen & Son Limited is a Canadian book distributor, and remains Canada's oldest family-owned and operated distributor, having been in continuous operation for over 90 years. Dundurn Press authors include Lincoln Alexander, Linda McQuaig, Ted Barris, Michael Coren Michael Coren (born 15 January 1959) is a British-Canadian writer and clergyman. A long-time television pers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russell Smith (writer)
Russell Claude Smith (born August 2, 1963 in Johannesburg, South Africa) is a Canadian writer and newspaper columnist. Smith's novels and short stories are mostly set in Toronto, where he lives. Biography Smith grew up in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He attended the Halifax Grammar School and Queen Elizabeth High School, and studied French literature at Queen's University, the University of Poitiers, and the University of Paris III. He has an MA in French from Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. As a freelance reporter and cultural commentator, he has published in the ''New York Review of Books, Details, The Walrus,Toronto Life, Flare, Now, EnRoute'' and other journals. He won the William Allen White award for magazine writing in 1995. From 1999 to 2020, Smith wrote a weekly column on the arts for ''The Globe and Mail''. On resigning from the column, Smith published an article in The Walrus reflecting on his departure as a mixture of quick-digest writing, lack of editorial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austin Clarke (novelist)
Austin Ardinel Chesterfield "Tom" Clarke, (July 26, 1934 – June 26, 2016), was a Barbadian novelist, essayist, and short story writer who was based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Among his notable books are novels such as ''The Polished Hoe'' (2002), memoirs including ''Membering'' (2015), and two collections of poetry, ''Where the Sun Shines Best'' (2013) and ''In Your Crib'' (2015). Early life and education Austin Clarke was born in 1934 in Saint James, Barbados, St. James, Barbados, where he received his early education in Anglican schools. He taught at a rural school for three years. In 1955, he moved to Canada and attended the University of Toronto's Trinity College, Toronto, Trinity College for two years. Career Clarke was a reporter at the ''Timmins Daily Press'' and the ''The Globe and Mail, Globe and Mail'', before joining the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as a freelance journalist. He subsequently taught at several American universities, including Yale University ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xue Yiwei
Xue Yiwei (, born in 1964) is a Chinese-born Canadian author. His hometown is Changsha, Hunan, and his birthplace was Chenzhou in the same province. He attended the Beijing University of Aeronautics (now Beihang University) in a computer science program, gaining a BsC. Next he attended the Université de Montréal, taking a program in English literature, attaining a Master of Arts. Finally he attended the Guangdong University of Foreign Studies in a doctoral program in linguistics and received his degree. In 2002, he relocated to Canada, due to his disenchantment with the materialism-focused direction of literature in his home country. In February, he occupied an apartment in proximity to the St. Joseph Oratory, in Côte-des-Neiges. In 2016, CBC Radio presented him as having a high level of popularity in China, known to "millions of people". Ha Jin stated that Xue is a "maverick". '' Shenzheners'' was his first work translated into English. Previously, he was not known among An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Coren
Michael Coren (born 15 January 1959) is a British-Canadian writer and clergyman. A long-time television personality, Coren hosted '' The Michael Coren Show'' on the Crossroads Television System from 1999 to 2011 before moving to the Sun News Network to host ''The Arena with Michael Coren'', from 2011 until the channel's demise in early 2015. He has also been a long-time radio personality, particularly on Toronto talk radio station CFRB. Coren is currently a columnist for the ''Toronto Star'' and '' iPolitics''. He has written more than ten books, including biographies of G. K. Chesterton, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis. His latest books are ''Heresy: Ten Lies They Spread About Christianity'' (2012), ''The Future of Catholicism'' (2013), ''Hatred: Islam's War on Christianity'' (2014), ''Epiphany: A Christian's Change of Heart & Mind over Same-Sex Marriage'' (2016) and ''The Rebel Christ'' (2021). Life and career Coren was born in Walthamsto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ted Barris
Ted Barris (born July 12, 1949, in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian writer, journalist, professor and broadcaster. He writes a weekly column, "The Barris Beat", and is a regular contributor to ''The Globe and Mail'' and the ''National Post''. His non-fiction works focus on Canada's military heritage. Barris has authored 18 books. Early years Barris was born in Toronto in 1949; his father, Alex Barris was a well-known Canadian author and broadcaster, and inspired his son's career in writing and broadcasting. In grade school, he wanted to become a writer with his first research for a term paper, "The Causes of the War of 1812", leading to his elementary school teacher (Mike Malott) encouraging him. Barris became interested in history and historical writing, a genre that would dominate his later writing career. Writing career While attending high school, Barris began his writing career. He contributed stories on school activities to the neighbourhood weekly, the ''Agincourt Mirror ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda McQuaig
Linda Joy McQuaig (born September 1951) is a Canadian journalist, columnist, author and social critic. She worked as a reporter investigating the Patti Starr affair. She wrote books and newspaper columns focusing on corporate influence in economic and social policy. Jonathan Kay of the ''National Post'' newspaper described her as "Canada's Michael Moore". In 2016, her book ''Shooting the Hippo: Death by Deficit and other Canadian Myths'' was named by the ''Literary Review of Canada'' as one of the 25 most influential Canadian books of the prior 25 years. Early years and personal life McQuaig was born to a middle-class Toronto family. Her father Jack wrote a half-dozen books on leadership and personal development. Her mother Audrey trained as a psychologist, but gave up her career to raise McQuaig, her sister and brothers. From 1963 to 1970 McQuaig attended Branksome Hall, a Toronto Private school, private girls school where she became president of the debating society, and f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lincoln Alexander
Lincoln MacCauley Alexander (January 21, 1922 – October 19, 2012) was a Canadian lawyer and politician who became the first Black Canadian to be a Member of Parliament (Canada), member of Parliament in the House of Commons of Canada, House of Commons, a federal Cabinet Minister (as federal Minister of Labour (Canada), Minister of Labour), a Chair of the Workplace Safety & Insurance Board, Worker's Compensation Board of Ontario, and the List of lieutenant governors of Ontario#Lieutenant Governors of Ontario, 1867-present, 24th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario from 1985 to 1991. Alexander was also a governor of the Canadian Unity Council. Alexander was born in Toronto to Caribbean immigrant parents. After service during World War II, he received a Bachelor of Arts from McMaster University in 1949 before earning his law degree from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1953. A member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, he became the first black Member of Parliament in Canadian h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Book Distributor
A book is a structured presentation of recorded information, primarily verbal and graphical, through a medium. Originally physical, electronic books and audiobooks are now existent. Physical books are objects that contain printed material, mostly of writing and images. Modern books are typically composed of many pages bound together and protected by a cover, what is known as the ''codex'' format; older formats include the scroll and the tablet. As a conceptual object, a ''book'' often refers to a written work of substantial length by one or more authors, which may also be distributed digitally as an electronic book (ebook). These kinds of works can be broadly classified into fiction (containing invented content, often narratives) and non-fiction (containing content intended as factual truth). But a physical book may not contain a written work: for example, it may contain ''only'' drawings, engravings, photographs, sheet music, puzzles, or removable content like paper dolls ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biography
A biography, or simply bio, is a detailed description of a person's life. It involves more than just basic facts like education, work, relationships, and death; it portrays a person's experience of these life events. Unlike a profile or curriculum vitae ( résumé), a biography presents a subject's life story, highlighting various aspects of their life, including intimate details of experience, and may include an analysis of the subject's personality. Biographical works are usually non-fiction, but fiction can also be used to portray a person's life. One in-depth form of biographical coverage is called legacy writing. Works in diverse media, from literature to film, form the genre known as biography. An authorized biography is written with the permission, cooperation, and at times, participation of a subject or a subject's heirs. An unauthorized biography is one written without such permission or participation. An autobiography is written by the person themselves, sometimes w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirk Howard
John Kirk Howard (December 3, 1942 – June 30, 2023) was a Canadian book publisher and founder and president of Dundurn Press, one of the largest independently owned publishing houses in Canada. In 2012, Howard became a recipient of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal "for publishing over decades a range of books on Canadian heritage." Biography Born in Hamilton, Ontario, Howard began his professional career teaching at a community college in Sarnia. There he helped establish the first Canadian Studies program in Ontario. After attending a speech by Canadian publishing icon Jack McClelland, Howard, who had been frustrated by the lack of books on Canadian history, made the decision to venture into publishing. Howard was president of the Organization of Book Publishers of Ontario from 2008-2011 where he developed a range of marketing initiatives for both print and ebooks, such as a marketing program to introduce Canadian ebooks to libraries and the development of a web site fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
