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David Arthur Watmough (August 17, 1926 – August 4, 2017) was a Canadian playwright, short story writer and novelist.

Watmough was born in London, England, and attended King's College London. He has worked as a reporter (the Cornish Guardian, a 'Talks Producer' (BBC Third Programme) and an editor (Ace Books). He immigrated to Canada in 1960, to Kitsilano in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he lived for 40 years with his partner, ex-Californian Floyd St. Clair (1930–2009), an opera critic and, from 1963 till his retirement in 1996,[1] a University of British Columbia French professor.[2] He became a Canadian citizen in 1967.[3]

Watmough lived from 2004 to 2009 in Boundary Bay and before his death had been living at Crofton Manor, a Vancouver assisted-living facility.

In 2008 he published his autobiography, "Myself Through Others: Memoirs".[4]

Selected bibliography

  • 1951: A Church Renascent: A Study in Modern French Catholicism, London: S.P.C.K.
  • 1967: Names for the Numbered Years: Three Plays, Vancouver: Bau-Xi Gallery
  • 1972: Ashes for Easter and Other Monodramas, Talonbooks
  • 1975: From a Cornish Landscape, Padstow, Cornwall: Lodenk Press
  • 1975: Love & The Waiting Game, Oberon
  • 1978: No More Into the Garden, Doubleday
  • 1982: Collected Shorter Fiction of David Watmough: 1972–82
  • 1982: Unruly Skeletons
  • 1984: The Connecticut Countess, Crossing Press
  • 1984: Fury, Oberon
  • 1986: Vibrations in Time, Mosaic
  • 1988: The Year of Fears, Mosaic
  • 1992: Thy Mother's Glass, Harper Collins, Шаблон:ISBN
  • 1994: The Time of the Kingfishers, Arsenal Pulp Press, Шаблон:ISBN
  • 1996: Hunting With Diana, Arsenal Pulp Press, Шаблон:ISBN
  • 2002: The Moor is Dark Beneath the Moon, Dundurn, Шаблон:ISBN
  • 2005: Vancouver Voices, Ripple Effect Press, Шаблон:ISBN
  • 2007: Geraldine, Ekstasis, Шаблон:ISBN
  • 2008: Coming Down the Pike: Sonnets, Ekstasis, Шаблон:ISBN
  • 2008: Myself Through Others: Memoirs, Dundurn, Шаблон:ISBN
  • 2010: Eyes and Ears on Boundary Bay, Ekstasis, Шаблон:ISBN
  • 2011: To Each an Albatross, Ekstasis, Шаблон:ISBN
  • 2013: Songs from the Hive, Ekstasis, Шаблон:ISBN

References

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External links

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  1. In Memory, Floyd Bradley St. Clair - Class Of 1948, South Pasadena High School Alumni Association - Classes of 1907-2017. Accessed 3 September 2017.
  2. Шаблон:Cite web
  3. Шаблон:Cite web
  4. Review in the Vancouver Sun, September 06, 2008 Шаблон:Webarchive