David Arthur Watmough is a Canadian

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 playwright

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, short story

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 writer and novelist.

Watmaugh was born in London

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, England

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, and attended King's College London

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. He has worked as a reporter (the Cornish Guardian

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, a 'Talks Producer' (BBC Third Programme

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) and an editor (Ace Books

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). He immigrated to Canada in 1960, to Kitsilano

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 in Vancouver

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, British Columbia

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

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n Floyd St. Clair, now a retired University of British Columbia

University of British Columbia

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 French

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 professor and opera critic. He became a Canadian citizen in 1967.

Watmough now lives in Tsawwassen

Tsawwassen, British Columbia

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, outside Vancouver.

In 2008 he published his autobiography, "Myself Through Others: Memoirs".

Selected bibliography

• A Church Renascent: A Study in Modern French Catholicism - 1951
• Names for the Numbered Years: Three Plays - 1967
• Ashes For Easter and Other Monodramas - 1972
• From a Cornish Landscape - 1975
• Love & The Waiting Game - 1975
• No More Into the Garden - 1978
• Collected Shorter Fiction of David Watmough: 1972-82 - 1982
• Unruly Skeletons - 1982
• The Connecticut Countess - 1984
• Fury - 1984
• Vibrations in Time, Mosaic - 1986
• The Year of Fears - 1988
• Thy Mother's Glass - 1992
• The Time of the Kingfishers - 1994
• Hunting With Diana - 1996
• The Moor is Dark Beneath the Moon - 2002
• Vancouver Voices - 2005
• Geraldine - 2007
• Myself Through Others: Memoirs - 2008

External links

• David Arthur Watmough at The Canadian Encyclopedia
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