Douglas Glover (writer), Date of Birth
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Canadian author, winner of the Governor-General's Award for Fiction, author of Elle
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About Douglas Glover (writer)
- Douglas Glover BA, M.Litt., MFA (born 14 November 1948 in Simcoe, Ontario.
- Canada) is a Canadian writer.
- He was raised on his family's tobacco farm just outside Waterford, Ontario.
- He has published five short story collections, four novels (including Elle which won the 2003 Governor-General's Award for Fiction), three books of essays, and The Enamoured Knight, a monograph on Don Quixote and novel form.
- His 1993 novel, The Life and Times of Captain N., was edited by Gordon Lish and released by Alfred A.
- Knopf.
- His most recent book is an essay collection, The Erotics of Restraint: Essays on Literary Form (Biblioasis, 2019). He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy from York University in 1969 and an M.Litt.
- in philosophy at the University of Edinburgh in 1971.
- He taught philosophy at the University of New Brunswick in 1971–72 and then worked as a reporter and editor on newspapers in Saint John, New Brunswick; Peterborough, Ontario; Montreal, Quebec; and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, until 1979.
- In 1982, he received a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Iowa's Iowa Writers' Workshop. Glover is a member of the core faculty of the MFA in Writing program at the Vermont College of Fine Arts.
- He has previously taught at Skidmore College, Colgate University, and the University of Albany.
- He was the 2005 McGee Professor of Writing at Davidson College.
- He has been writer-in-residence at University of New Brunswick, Saint Thomas University, the University of Lethbridge and Utah State University.
- From October 1994 to October 1996, he was host of a weekly radio interview program called The Book Show at WAMC in Albany, NY.
- From 1994 to 2006, he edited the annual anthology Best Canadian Stories.
- From 2010 to 2013, he wrote regularly for the international affairs magazine Global Brief.
- In 2010, he founded the online literary magazine, Numéro Cinq, which he edited until it ceased publication in August, 2017. He has two sons Jacob Glover and Jonah Glover.
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