Gordon Stewart Anderson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Gordon Stewart Anderson

Canadian writer

Date of Birth: 08-Jul-1958

Place of Birth: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Date of Death: 08-Jul-1991

Profession: novelist

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Gordon Stewart Anderson

  • Gordon Stewart Anderson (1958 – July 8, 1991) was a Canadian writer, whose novel The Toronto You Are Leaving was published by his mother 15 years after his death.Anderson was born in Hamilton, Ontario, raised in Sault Ste.
  • Marie and lived for many years in Toronto.
  • He graduated from the University of Waterloo and the University of Western Ontario.
  • A gay man, Anderson died of AIDS-related causes.
  • He is remembered on the Canadian AIDS Memorial Quilt. [Three] years after his death, his mother Marlene Lloyd discovered that a small publishing house had an unpublished manuscript for The Toronto You Are Leaving, a novel Anderson had written about life in Toronto's gay community in the late 1970s.
  • She submitted the manuscript to several other publishers without success, and eventually edited and self-published the novel herself in 2006.
  • The novel garnered a strong review in The Globe and Mail, as well as significant attention in Canada's gay press. Marlene Lloyd had also previously published a book of her own, Not a Total Waste: The True Story of a Mother, Her Son and AIDS, about Anderson's death.

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