"...a master of narrative structure." (The Wall Street Journal)
Attack of the Copula Spiders, a new essay collection (Biblioasis, 2012). Contents include, among others:
- How to Write a Novel
- How to Write a Short Story: Notes on Structure and an Exercise
- The Drama of Grammar
- The Mind of Alice Munro
- Novels and Dreams
2006 Winner of The
Writers' Trust of Canada Timothy Findley Award
2005 Finalist for
the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
2003 Winner of the
Governor-General's Award for Fiction
Douglas Glover is an itinerant
Canadian. Born in 1948, he grew up on a farm in southwestern Ontario, studied philosophy at York University and the University
of Edinburgh, then worked on a series of daily newspapers in New Brunswick, Ontario, Quebec and Saskatchewan before earning
his MFA at the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1982.
He is the author of five
story collections, four novels, a book of essays, Notes Home from a Prodigal Son, and The Enamoured Knight,
a book about Don Quixote and novel form.
He won the 2006 Writers' Trust of Canada Timothy Findley
Award. His bestselling novel Elle won
the 2003 Governor-General's Award for Fiction, was a finalist for the 2005 International
IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and was optioned by Isuma Igloolik Productions, makers of Atarnajuat, The Fast Runner.
His story collection A Guide to Animal Behaviour was a finalist for the 1991 Governor-General's Award.
His critically acclaimed
novel The Life and Times of Captain N. was listed by the Chicago Tribune as one of the best books of 1993 and as
a Globe and Mail top-ten paperback of 2001. 16 Categories of Desire was short-listed for the Rogers Writers
Trust Fiction Award.
Glover's stories
have been frequently anthologized, notably in The Best American Short Stories, Best Canadian Stories, and
The New Oxford Book of Canadian Stories. His criticism has appeared in the Globe and
Mail, the New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post Book World, the Boston Globe Books,
and the Los Angeles Times.
He was recently the subject
of a TV documentary in a series called The Writing Life and a collection of critical essays, The Art of Desire,
The Fiction of Douglas Glover, edited by Bruce Stone. And he appeared in several seg-ments of the TV series Writers'
Confessions.
Since he washed up in the
hinterlands of upstate New York in the early 1990s, Glover has taught at Skidmore College, Colgate University, Davidson College,
and the State University of New York at Albany. In addition, he has been writer-in-residence at the University of New Brunswick,
the University of Lethbridge, St. Thomas University and Utah State University.
For two years
he produced and hosted The Book Show, a weekly literary interview program which originated at WAMC in Albany and
was syndicated on various public radio stations and around the world on Voice of America and the Armed Forces Network. He edited the annual Best Canadian Stories
from 1996 to 2006.
He is currently on the faculty
of the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing program.
He has two sons, Jacob Glover and Jonah Glover, who will doubtless turn out better than
he did.
