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Place of Birth: Simcoe, Ontario, Canada
About R. Scott Bakker
- Richard Scott Bakker (born February 2, 1967, Simcoe, Ontario) is a Canadian fantasy author and frequent lecturer in the South Western Ontario university community.
- He grew up on a tobacco farm in the Simcoe area.
- In 1986 he attended the University of Western Ontario to pursue a degree in literature and later an MA in theory and criticism.
- Since the late 1990s, he has been attempting to elucidate theories of media bubbles and the intellectual alienation of the working class.
- After all but dissertation in a PhD in philosophy at Vanderbilt University he returned to London, Ontario where he now lives with his wife and daughter.
- He spends his time writing split between his fiction and his ongoing philosophic inquiry.
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