R.I.P. Paul Grescoe

A newspaper and magazine writer before he began authoring books, Paul Grescoe of Bowen Island died after a stroke on… FULL STORY
A newspaper and magazine writer before he began authoring books, Paul Grescoe of Bowen Island died after a stroke on… FULL STORY
Robin Mathews, born in Smithers on Nov. 1, 1931 and raised in Powell River, graduated from UBC and worked as… FULL STORY
Sheila Baxter, the first writer to receive the VanCity Book Prize for best book pertaining to women’s issues by a… FULL STORY
Born in Edmonton, Alberta on March 26, 1942, Robert Hogg was raised on the VT Ranch on Green Lake in… FULL STORY
Anne Cameron, a British Columbia original, was born in Nanaimo, B.C. on August 20, 1938, and she died of bacterial… FULL STORY
Rebecca Godfrey was working in New York City in the late 1990s and writing her first novel about teen girls… FULL STORY
Esteemed UBC historical geographer Cole Harris (at right), who wrote extensively about European settlement in Canada and colonialism’s impact on… FULL STORY
Author, book publisher, and distributor Gordon Soules has died. Like many BC publishers, Gordon Soules entered the field as an… FULL STORY
Mahinder Kaur Doman, editor of an anthology of stories by some of the first Indian women born in Canada from… FULL STORY
Beth Jankola was a painter and poet who frequently cited working-class environs in her books. Jody Said partially examines her… FULL STORY
By Alan Twigg (with notes from BCBookLook staff) In the early 1970s, Brian Fawcett first notably wrote about his hometown… FULL STORY
By Alan Twigg “His was the first black novel to come out of Western Canada and it got passed over.”… FULL STORY
By Alan Twigg “As for computer-generated type and the personal computer, an association would have been as unthinkable as making… FULL STORY
By Alan Twigg The heroic physician and psychiatrist Louise Jilek-Aall (at right), author of two books, has died at Mountain… FULL STORY
One of the first Indigenous writers in Canada to publish fiction, Lee Maracle died at the age of 71 on… FULL STORY
Born on December 27, 1927, Ray Woollam taught school in Kispiox, B.C. and served as a United Church Minister in… FULL STORY
Professor emeritus at Simon Fraser University in the departments of English and Humanities, Jerry Zaslove died June 23. His publications… FULL STORY
Born in Liverpool on October 7, 1930, James Heneghan came to Vancouver in 1957 where he eventually began writing fiction… FULL STORY
One of B.C.’s most successful historical novelists, Jack Whyte has died. At the age of 52, Whyte burst onto the… FULL STORY
The maritime writer known as Silver Donald Cameron died on June 1, 2020 in Halifax from complications arising from lung… FULL STORY