Ray Smith (author)

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Ray Smith, born James Raymond Smith, (1941 - 2019) was a Canadian novelist and short story writer. He was born on 12 December 1941 in Cape Breton (Inverness, Nova Scotia) and educated at Dalhousie University, Halifax (B.A. 1963), and at Concordia University, Montreal (M.A. 1985). He worked as an instructor in English at Dawson College, Montreal, until his retirement in 2007. [1] [2] In the early 1970s he joined with authors Clark Blaise, Raymond Fraser, Hugh Hood, and John Metcalf to form the celebrated Montreal Story Tellers Fiction Performance Group.

Smith's works include the novels Lord Nelson Tavern (McClelland & Stewart, 1974), [3] A Night at the Opera (Porcupine's Quill, 1992), which won the 1992 QSPELL Hugh MacLennan Award for Best Novel, [4] and The Man Who Loved Jane Austen [5] (Porcupine's Quill, 1999). He has also published the short story collections Cape Breton Is the Thought Control Centre of Canada [6] (Anansi Press, 1969) and Century [7] His short fiction has also appeared in numerous anthologies.

In 2007, he published The Flush of Victory: Jack Bottomly Among the Virgins. [8]

In August 2010, literary critics Alex Good and Stephen W. Beattie included Smith in their list of the ten most underrated writers in Canada, published on the National Post's website. [9]

He died at his home in Mabou on 20 June 2019. [10]

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References

  1. ↑ "Thirsty: A Biblioasis Miscellany: Ray Smith: Back in the Thought Control Centre of Cape Breton". Thirsty. 2009-02-22. Retrieved 2023-11-29.
  2. ↑ "Montreal Writers: A Gallery of Montreal Writers - Ray Smith". www.vehiculepress.com. Retrieved 2023-11-29.
  3. ↑ "Lord Nelson Tavern : a novel / by Ray Smith - Catalogue | National Library of Australia". catalogue.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 2023-11-29.
  4. ↑ QWF archive http://www.qwf.org/awards/archive.html
  5. ↑ Smith, Ray (1999). The Man who Loved Jane Austen. The Porcupine's Quill. ISBN   978-0-88984-202-1.
  6. ↑ Current Biblioasis edition http://www.biblioasis.com/product_info.php?products_id=56
  7. ↑ Biblioasis, (Stoddart, 1986).
  8. ↑ "The Flush of Victory: Jack Bottomly Among the Virgins". Biblioasis. Retrieved 2023-11-29.
  9. ↑ Alex Good and Stephen W. Beattie, "Flying Under the Radar: 10 Underrated Canadian Authors" Archived 2012-07-07 at archive.today , National Post, August 2010
  10. ↑ The Chronicle Herald (25 June 2019). Obituary, Retrieved 31 July 2019.

Archives of Ray Smith (Ray Smith fonds, R11807) are held at Library and Archives Canada


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