David Arthur Watmough (August 17, 1926 – August 4, 2017) was a Canadian playwright, short story writer and novelist.
Watmough was born in London, England, and attended King's College London. He has worked as a reporter (the Cornish Guardian, a 'Talks Producer' ( BBC Third Programme) and an editor ( Ace Books). He immigrated to Canada in 1960, to Kitsilano in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he lived for 40 years with his partner, ex- Californian Floyd St. Clair (1930–2009), an opera critic and, from 1963 till his retirement in 1996, [1] a University of British Columbia French professor. [2] He became a Canadian citizen in 1967. [3]
Watmough lived from 2004 to 2009 in Boundary Bay and before his death had been living at Crofton Manor, a Vancouver assisted-living facility.
In 2008 he published his autobiography, "Myself Through Others: Memoirs". [4]
Selected bibliography
- 1951: A Church Renascent: A Study in Modern French Catholicism, London: S.P.C.K.
- 1967: Names for the Numbered Years: Three Plays, Vancouver: Bau-Xi Gallery
- 1972: Ashes for Easter and Other Monodramas, Talonbooks
- 1975: From a Cornish Landscape, Padstow, Cornwall: Lodenk Press
- 1975: Love & The Waiting Game, Oberon
- 1978: No More Into the Garden, Doubleday
- 1982: Collected Shorter Fiction of David Watmough: 1972–82
- 1982: Unruly Skeletons
- 1984: The Connecticut Countess, Crossing Press
- 1984: Fury, Oberon
- 1986: Vibrations in Time, Mosaic
- 1988: The Year of Fears, Mosaic
- 1992: Thy Mother's Glass, Harper Collins, ISBN 978-0-00-647399-2
- 1994: The Time of the Kingfishers, Arsenal Pulp Press, ISBN 978-1-551520-08-7
- 1996: Hunting With Diana, Arsenal Pulp Press, ISBN 978-1-551520-32-2
- 2002: The Moor is Dark Beneath the Moon, Dundurn, ISBN 978-1-55488-654-8
- 2005: Vancouver Voices, Ripple Effect Press, ISBN 1-894735-09-9
- 2007: Geraldine, Ekstasis, ISBN 978-1-894800-99-0
- 2008: Coming Down the Pike: Sonnets, Ekstasis, ISBN 978-1-897430-30-9
- 2008: Myself Through Others: Memoirs, Dundurn, ISBN 978-1-55002-799-0
- 2010: Eyes and Ears on Boundary Bay, Ekstasis, ISBN 978-1-897430-45-3
- 2011: To Each an Albatross, Ekstasis, ISBN 978-1-897430-64-4
- 2013: Songs from the Hive, Ekstasis, ISBN 978-1-897430-96-5
References
- ^ In Memory, Floyd Bradley St. Clair - Class Of 1948, South Pasadena High School Alumni Association - Classes of 1907-2017. Accessed 3 September 2017.
- ^ "Watmough, David". B.C. BookWorld. Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2007-07-08.
- ^ "The History of Metropolitan Vancouver". Archived from the original on 2007-10-04. Retrieved 2007-07-08.
- ^ Review in the Vancouver Sun, September 06, 2008 Archived November 5, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
External links
- Boyd, Colin (6 September 2017). "David Arthur Watmough". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Historica Canada. Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2023-06-26.
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David Arthur Watmough (August 17, 1926 – August 4, 2017) was a Canadian playwright, short story writer and novelist.
Watmough was born in London, England, and attended King's College London. He has worked as a reporter (the Cornish Guardian, a 'Talks Producer' ( BBC Third Programme) and an editor ( Ace Books). He immigrated to Canada in 1960, to Kitsilano in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he lived for 40 years with his partner, ex- Californian Floyd St. Clair (1930–2009), an opera critic and, from 1963 till his retirement in 1996, [1] a University of British Columbia French professor. [2] He became a Canadian citizen in 1967. [3]
Watmough lived from 2004 to 2009 in Boundary Bay and before his death had been living at Crofton Manor, a Vancouver assisted-living facility.
In 2008 he published his autobiography, "Myself Through Others: Memoirs". [4]
Selected bibliography
- 1951: A Church Renascent: A Study in Modern French Catholicism, London: S.P.C.K.
- 1967: Names for the Numbered Years: Three Plays, Vancouver: Bau-Xi Gallery
- 1972: Ashes for Easter and Other Monodramas, Talonbooks
- 1975: From a Cornish Landscape, Padstow, Cornwall: Lodenk Press
- 1975: Love & The Waiting Game, Oberon
- 1978: No More Into the Garden, Doubleday
- 1982: Collected Shorter Fiction of David Watmough: 1972–82
- 1982: Unruly Skeletons
- 1984: The Connecticut Countess, Crossing Press
- 1984: Fury, Oberon
- 1986: Vibrations in Time, Mosaic
- 1988: The Year of Fears, Mosaic
- 1992: Thy Mother's Glass, Harper Collins, ISBN 978-0-00-647399-2
- 1994: The Time of the Kingfishers, Arsenal Pulp Press, ISBN 978-1-551520-08-7
- 1996: Hunting With Diana, Arsenal Pulp Press, ISBN 978-1-551520-32-2
- 2002: The Moor is Dark Beneath the Moon, Dundurn, ISBN 978-1-55488-654-8
- 2005: Vancouver Voices, Ripple Effect Press, ISBN 1-894735-09-9
- 2007: Geraldine, Ekstasis, ISBN 978-1-894800-99-0
- 2008: Coming Down the Pike: Sonnets, Ekstasis, ISBN 978-1-897430-30-9
- 2008: Myself Through Others: Memoirs, Dundurn, ISBN 978-1-55002-799-0
- 2010: Eyes and Ears on Boundary Bay, Ekstasis, ISBN 978-1-897430-45-3
- 2011: To Each an Albatross, Ekstasis, ISBN 978-1-897430-64-4
- 2013: Songs from the Hive, Ekstasis, ISBN 978-1-897430-96-5
References
- ^ In Memory, Floyd Bradley St. Clair - Class Of 1948, South Pasadena High School Alumni Association - Classes of 1907-2017. Accessed 3 September 2017.
- ^ "Watmough, David". B.C. BookWorld. Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2007-07-08.
- ^ "The History of Metropolitan Vancouver". Archived from the original on 2007-10-04. Retrieved 2007-07-08.
- ^ Review in the Vancouver Sun, September 06, 2008 Archived November 5, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
External links
- Boyd, Colin (6 September 2017). "David Arthur Watmough". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Historica Canada. Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2023-06-26.
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- 2017 deaths
- 20th-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights
- 21st-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights
- 20th-century Canadian novelists
- 21st-century Canadian novelists
- Canadian male novelists
- Canadian male short story writers
- English emigrants to Canada
- Canadian gay writers
- Writers from London
- Writers from Vancouver
- Alumni of King's College London
- Canadian LGBT dramatists and playwrights
- Canadian LGBT novelists
- Canadian autobiographers
- Canadian male dramatists and playwrights
- 20th-century Canadian short story writers
- 21st-century Canadian short story writers
- 20th-century Canadian male writers
- 21st-century Canadian male writers
- Canadian male non-fiction writers
- 21st-century Canadian LGBT people
- Gay dramatists and playwrights
- Gay novelists
- Canadian dramatist and playwright stubs