David Arthur Watmough (August 17, 1926 – August 4, 2017) was a Canadian playwright, short story writer and novelist. Watmough was born in

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, England, and attended King's College London. He has worked as a reporter (the

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, a 'Talks Producer' (

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) and an editor (

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). He immigrated to Canada in 1960, to

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, where he lived for 40 years with his partner, ex-

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French professor. He became a Canadian citizen in 1967. Watmough lived from 2004 to 2009 in

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and before his death had been living at Crofton Manor, a Vancouver

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facility. In 2008 he published his autobiography, "Myself Through Others: Memoirs".Review
in the ''

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'', September 06, 2008

Selected bibliography

* 1951: ''A Church Renascent: A Study in Modern French Catholicism'', London: S.P.C.K. * 1967: ''Names for the Numbered Years: Three Plays'', Vancouver: Bau-Xi Gallery * 1972: ''Ashes for Easter and Other Monodramas'', Talonbooks * 1975: ''From a Cornish Landscape'', Padstow, Cornwall: Lodenk Press * 1975: ''Love & The Waiting Game'', Oberon * 1978: ''No More Into the Garden'', Doubleday * 1982: ''Collected Shorter Fiction of David Watmough: 1972–82'' * 1982: ''Unruly Skeletons'' * 1984: ''The Connecticut Countess'', Crossing Press * 1984: ''Fury'', Oberon * 1986: ''Vibrations in Time'', Mosaic * 1988: ''The Year of Fears'', Mosaic * 1992: ''Thy Mother's Glass'', Harper Collins, * 1994: ''The Time of the Kingfishers'', Arsenal Pulp Press, * 1996: ''Hunting With Diana'', Arsenal Pulp Press, * 2002: ''The Moor is Dark Beneath the Moon'', Dundurn, * 2005: ''Vancouver Voices'', Ripple Effect Press, * 2007: ''Geraldine'', Ekstasis, * 2008: ''Coming Down the Pike: Sonnets'', Ekstasis, * 2008: ''Myself Through Others: Memoirs'', Dundurn, * 2010: ''Eyes and Ears on Boundary Bay'', Ekstasis, * 2011: ''To Each an Albatross'', Ekstasis, * 2013: ''Songs from the Hive'', Ekstasis,

References

External links

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