Gordon Stewart Anderson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Canadian writer
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Place of Birth: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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 [Three] years after his death, his mother Marlene Lloyd discovered that a small publishing house had an unpublished manuscript for The Toronto You Are Leaving, a novel Anderson had written about life in Toronto's gay community in the late 1970s.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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