Linwood Barclay
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Linwood Barclay was born in the United States, but moved to Canada just before turning four years old. He received a B.A. in English from Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario. He worked for the Peterborough Examiner before joining the Toronto Star in 1981. He held such positions as assistant visa mer city editor, chief copy editor, news editor, and Life section editor, before becoming the paper's humor columnist in 1993. On June 28, 2008, he wrote his last column announcing his retirement from the Star. He is the author of both fiction and non-fiction works including Last Resort; Bad Move; Bad Guys; Lone Wolf; Stone Rain; No Time for Goodbye; Too Close to Home; Fear the Worst; and Never Look Away. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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I Will Ruin You: A Novel 1 exemplar
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Books to Die For: The World's Greatest Mystery Writers on the World's Greatest Mystery Novels (2012) 244 exemplar
Reader's Digest Select Editions: Crossfire | Minding Frankie | Never Look Away | The Genesis Plague (2011) 5 exemplar
Reader's Digest Select Editions: The Overlook • The Last Testament • Left For Dead • No Time For Goodbye (2007) 2 exemplar
Reader's Digest Select Editions: Never Look Away / Minding Frankie / The Genesis Plague / The Summer of the Bear (2011) 2 exemplar
Het Beste Boek 252: Zonder een woord / Het strandpaviljoen / In Gods naam / Weehuis El Girasol 2 exemplar
Livros Condensados: Nem Um Adeus | Magias De Jardim | Juiz E Juri | Amor E Dr. Devon (2007) 2 exemplar
Het Beste Boek 276: Kijk niet weg / Zoet ongeluk / Niets blijft verborgen / De intrigant (2012) 1 exemplar
Australian Reader's Digest Select Editions: The Overlook / No Time for Goodbye / The Last Testament / Garden Spells (2007) 1 exemplar
Livros Condensados: Nunca pare de olhar | O jardineiro francês | O mal da criação | Um cavalo me escolheu (2011) — Författare — 1 exemplar
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Allmänna fakta
- Födelsedag
- 1955-03-20
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- Canada
- Bostadsorter
- Burlington, Ontario, Canada
Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Utbildning
- Trent University (Peterborough)
- Yrken
- assistant city editor
chief copy editor
news editor
Life section editor
Humour Columnist
author - Relationer
- Barclay, Neetha (Wife)
Barclay, Spencer (Son)
Barclay, Paige (Daughter) - Organisationer
- Toronto Star
- Kort biografi
- At the age of 22, Linwood left the resort and got his first newspaper job, at the Peterborough Examiner.
In 1981, he joined the Toronto Star, Canada’s largest circulation newspaper. For twelve years he held a variety of editing positions, then became the paper’s humour columnist in 1993. A few thousand columns later, he retired from the paper in 2008 to write books full-time.
After writing four comic thrillers featuring the character Zack Walker, Linwood turned to darker, standalone novels, starting with No Time for Goodbye, which became an international hit. The novel has been translated into nearly forty languages, was the single bestselling novel in the UK in 2008, and has been optioned for film by Eric McCormack. Since then, all of Linwood’s novels have appeared on bestseller lists, and more his books have been optioned.
Linwood studied English Literature at Trent University. He was fortunate to have some very fine mentors; in particular, the celebrated Canadian author Margaret Laurence, whom Linwood first met while she was served as writer-in-residence at Trent, and Kenneth Millar, who, under the name Ross Macdonald, wrote the acclaimed series of mystery novels featuring the private eye Lew Archer.
It was at Trent where he met his wife Neetha. They have been married more than thirty years, and have two children, Spencer and Paige.
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