Trevor Clark
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Trevor Clark is a Canadian novelist and short story writer.
. He hitchhiked to San Francisco at 17, later dropped out of a journalism program, worked around Alberta for a year, and hitchhiked twice more through the USA before returning to school. He graduated from York University
with a B.A.
in English in 1978.
He married Professor Diana Cooper-Clark in 1979, and took the photographs in her two books of interviews with writers, as well as having had photos published in Now
and The Globe and Mail
. They later divorced, and have a daughter.
His first work of fiction, Born To Lose, (a novella and short stories,) was published in 1989. Clark, who also worked as a portrait photographer, had photographs published in a biography about crime novelist Ross Macdonald
in 1999. In addition he was an assistant editor for a trade paper, a program caption editor, (editing TV dialogue for the hearing-impaired,) and managed a bookstore.
In 2003 he married Maria Gomes, a Brazilian. They had an on and off relationship over the years, including a period in London where he lived from 2004 – 2008, working as a home entertainment coordinator for a Canadian TV movie production company. They divorced in 2011.
Upon returning to Canada he moved to Vancouver, where two novels have been published, and a book of short stories is due out in 2012.
Biography
Clark was born and raised in TorontoToronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
. He hitchhiked to San Francisco at 17, later dropped out of a journalism program, worked around Alberta for a year, and hitchhiked twice more through the USA before returning to school. He graduated from York University
York University
York University is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's third-largest university, Ontario's second-largest graduate school, and Canada's leading interdisciplinary university....
with a B.A.
Bachelor's degree
A bachelor's degree is usually an academic degree awarded for an undergraduate course or major that generally lasts for three or four years, but can range anywhere from two to six years depending on the region of the world...
in English in 1978.
He married Professor Diana Cooper-Clark in 1979, and took the photographs in her two books of interviews with writers, as well as having had photos published in Now
NOW (magazine)
Now is a free weekly newspaper in Toronto, Canada. It was first printed on September 10, 1981 by Michael Hollett and Alice Klein. Now is an alternative weekly mixing arts and entertainment news with political coverage....
and The Globe and Mail
The Globe and Mail
The Globe and Mail is a nationally distributed Canadian newspaper, based in Toronto and printed in six cities across the country. With a weekly readership of approximately 1 million, it is Canada's largest-circulation national newspaper and second-largest daily newspaper after the Toronto Star...
. They later divorced, and have a daughter.
His first work of fiction, Born To Lose, (a novella and short stories,) was published in 1989. Clark, who also worked as a portrait photographer, had photographs published in a biography about crime novelist Ross Macdonald
Ross Macdonald
Not to be confused with John D. MacDonaldRoss Macdonald is the pseudonym of the American-Canadian writer of crime fiction Kenneth Millar...
in 1999. In addition he was an assistant editor for a trade paper, a program caption editor, (editing TV dialogue for the hearing-impaired,) and managed a bookstore.
In 2003 he married Maria Gomes, a Brazilian. They had an on and off relationship over the years, including a period in London where he lived from 2004 – 2008, working as a home entertainment coordinator for a Canadian TV movie production company. They divorced in 2011.
Upon returning to Canada he moved to Vancouver, where two novels have been published, and a book of short stories is due out in 2012.
Fiction
- 1989: Born To Lose, ECW PressECW PressECW Press is a North American small press book publisher located in Toronto, Ontario. It was founded by Jack David and Robert Lecker in 1974 as a Canadian literary magazine named Essays on Canadian Writing. Five years later, ECW published its first books - trade and scholarly titles...
, Toronto - 2009: Dragging The River, Now Or Never Publishing, Vancouver
- 2010: Love On The Killing Floor, Now Or Never Publishing, Vancouver
- 2012: Escape and Other Stories, Now Or Never Publishing, Vancouver
Photography
- 1983: Designs of Darkness: Interviews With Detective Novelists, by Diana Cooper-Clark, (Bowling Green University Popular Press.)
- 1986: Interviews With Contemporary Novelists, by Diana Cooper-Clark, (Macmillan/ St. Martin’s Press.)
- 1999: Ross Macdonald: A Biography, by Tom Nolan, (Scribner’s.)
External links
- http://www.quillandquire.com/reviews/review.cfm?review_id=6996
- http://www.abcbookworld.com/view_author.php?id=9714
- http://www.writersunion.ca/write/winter11/life.html
- http://www.thestar.com/article/220657
- http://www.canadianauthors.net/c/clark_trevor/
- http://intoviews.wordpress.com/2010/04/13/trevor-clark/
- http://paperbacksavant.blogspot.com/2010/11/love-on-killing-floor.html
- http://www.nonpublishing.com/nonfiction_page_2010_LOTKF.html
- http://www.ecwpress.com/books/born_lose