Bill Gaston (born January 14, 1953, in Tacoma, Washington) is a Canadian novelist, playwright and short story writer. Gaston grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Toronto, Ontario, and North Vancouver, British Columbia. Aside from teaching at various universities, he has worked as a logger, salmon fishing guide, group home worker and, most exotically, playing hockey in the south of France. He is married (to writer Dede Crane) with four children, including filmmaker Connor Gaston, and lives in Victoria BC, where he teaches at the University of Victoria.
He has three degrees from the University of British Columbiaand played varsity hockey for the UBC Thunderbirds.
Books in order of publication:
Novels
Tall Lives (1990)
The Cameraman (1994)
Bella Combe Journal (1996)
The Good Body (2000)
Sointula (2004)
The Order of Good Cheer (2008)
The World (2012)
Short stories
Deep Cove Stories (1989)
North of Jesus’ Beans (1994)
Sex is Red (1998)
Mount Appetite (2002) (nominated for the Giller Prize
Gargoyles (2006) (nominated for the 2006 Governor General’s Award for fiction)
Juliet Was a Surprise (2014) (nominated for the Governor General’s Award for fiction)
A Mariner’s Guide to Self-Sabotage (2017) published by Douglas & McIntyre
Poetry
Inviting Blindness (1995)
Drama
Yardsale (1994)
Ethnic Cleansing
I am Danielle Steel
Non-fiction
Midnight Hockey: All About Beer, the Boys and the Real Canadian Game (2006)
Just Let Me Look At You: On Fatherhood (2018)
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