Kildare Robert Eric Dobbs, (born 10 October 1923) is a Canadian

Canada

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 short story

Short story

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 and travel writer.

Born in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh

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, India

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, he was educated in Ireland

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 and later spent 5 years in the Royal Navy during the Second World War. After the war he worked in the British Colonial Service in Tanganyka. Dobbs came to Canada in 1952 and became a teacher, editor for Macmillan of Canada, managing editor of Saturday Night

Saturday Night (magazine)

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, and book editor of the Toronto Star

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.

In 2000, he was awarded the Order of Ontario

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. Dobbs lives in Toronto

Toronto

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, Ontario

Ontario

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with his wife Linda Kooluris Dobbs, a noted portrait artist, painter and photographer.