Linwood Barclay

Linwood Barclay ( born 1955 in Connecticut ) is a Canadian- American author, journalist and former columnist.

Life

Barclays parents settled in the late 1950s near Toronto. His father, Everett Barclay, was a draftsman and painter who worked in magazines such as Life, Look and Saturday Evening Post for the automotive industry and their advertising. In the 1960s, automotive advertising was increasingly determined by photography and so his father saddled order. The family settled in the Kawartha Lakes northwest of Toronto in the Province of Ontario. There the family had purchased a holiday village with huts and storage of caravans. As Barclay was 16, his father died and Linwood was the breadwinner of the family. The experiences of this time, he wrote down in his Last Resort A Memoir report.

With 22 Barclay left the Village and went northeast of Toronto, where he studied English at Trent University literature and his first job at a newspaper, the Peterborough Examiner found to Peterborough. At Trent University, he met the Canadian author Margaret Laurence know who worked there as a writer- in-residence, and had the U.S. Author of Mystery Novels Ross Macdonald 's mentor. In 1981 he moved to Canada's largest daily newspaper, the Toronto Star, where he held a number of editorial posts until 1993. From 1993 on, he became known in the Toronto Star for his humorous columns and comments. In 2008, he left the newspaper in order to devote himself entirely to his literary activity can.

Barclay learned at Trent University met his wife. The couple has two grown children and lives in Burlington southwest of Toronto.

Awards and Honors

• 2009: Arthur Ellis Award ( Arthur) in the category of Best Novel for Too Close to Home

Works

• Father Knows Zilch: A Guide for Dads Dumbfolded. with illustrations by Steve Nease. Stoddart, Toronto 1996, ISBN 0-7737-5808-9.
• This House Is Nuts! Illustrations Steve Nease. Stoddart, Toronto 1997, ISBN 0-7737-3056-7.
• Last Resort: A Memoir. McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 2000, ISBN 0-7710-1078-8.

• Bad Move. Bantam Books, New York 2004, ISBN 0-553-80385-9.
• Bad Guys. Bantam Books, New York 2005, ISBN 0-553-80386-7.
• Lone Wolf. Bantam Books, New York 2006, ISBN 0-553-80455-3.
• Stone Rain. Bantam Books, New York 2007, ISBN 978-0-553-80456-0.

• No Time for Goodbye. Charnwood, Leicester 2007, ISBN 978-1-84782-343-4. German: without a word. Ullsteinhaus, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-548-26743-2.

• German: The near death. Ullsteinhaus, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-548-26744-9.

• German: In fear of death. Ullsteinhaus, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-548-28271-8.

• German: No Escape. Ullsteinhaus, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-548-28348-7.

• German: Because I loved you. Knaur Paperback, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-426-51052-0.

• German: Window to death. Earthscan, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-426-21356-8.

• German: Ask the dead. Earthscan, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-426-21371-1.