Crawford Kilian

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Crawford Kilian
Born (1941-02-07) February 7, 1941 (age 82)
New York City, New York, U.S.
OccupationNovelist
Nationality Canadian
Education Columbia University (BA)
Simon Fraser University (MA)
GenreFantasy, science fiction, nonfiction

Crawford Kilian (born February 7, 1941) is a Canadian novelist and a college professor. He is also the former public education columnist for the Vancouver Province newspaper. Kilian holds an undergraduate degree from Columbia University and master's degree from Simon Fraser University. [1] [2]

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Biography

Born in New York City, Crawford Kilian grew up in Los Angeles and Mexico City. He graduated from Santa Monica High School in 1958 and moved back to New York to attend college. Kilian completed his undergraduate career at Columbia University in 1962. [1]

After graduation, Kilian was drafted into the United States Army where he completed a two-year tour of duty. [1] After his tour of duty, he became a technical writer for the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, California. [3]

Shortly after he moved to Vancouver, Canada, where he began his education career. Kilian taught in two British Columbia community colleges between 1967 and 2008, of which five months were spent in China from 1983 to 1984. Kilian's first teaching position was at the Vancouver post-secondary institution, Vancouver Community College. Shortly after in 1968, he moved to Capilano College for its inaugural year. After 40 years at Capilano, he retired in the spring of 2008.

Kilian has published hundreds of articles on a wide range of topics including education, science, environment, politics, web writing, and books. After retirement he became a part-time writer-editor for The Tyee , an online newspaper based in Vancouver.

He currently[ when? ] lives in North Vancouver, British Columbia.

Selected works

TitlePublishedPublisherNotes
Wonders, Inc.1968Parnassus Press (Berkeley, CA) [4] A children's book, illustrated by John Larrecq OCLC   1212
The Last Vikings1973
The Empire of Time1978
Go Do Some Great Thing: The Black Pioneers of British Columbia19782nd, expanded edition 2008
Icequake1979
Eyas1982
Tsunami1983
Exploring British Columbia's Past1984
Brother Jonathan1985
School Wars: The Assault on B.C. Education1985 [5]
Lifter1986
The Fall of the Republic1987
Rogue Emperor1988
Gryphon1989
Greenmagic1992
The Communications Book1994
2020 Visions: The Futures of Canadian Education1995
Redmagic1995
Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy19982nd edition, 2007
Writing for the Web1999Republished in 2000, 2006, 2009
Sell Your Nonfiction Book2009

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Writers in Electronic Residence - Crawford Kilian Archived 2006-10-08 at the Wayback Machine
  2. "Columbia College Today". www.college.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2022-06-10.
  3. ABCBookWord - Keyword: Crawford Kilian
  4. "Wonders, inc.". LC Online Catalog. Library of Congress (lccn.loc.gov). Retrieved 2016-02-13.
  5. The History of Metropolitan Vancouver - 1985