Keith Maillard
Keith Maillard is the author of thirteen novels, including Two Strand River , Alex Driving South , Motet , Hazard Zones , Gloria , The Clarinet Polka , and Difficulty at the Beginning , his four-volume Bildungsroman. He has won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize (Motet ) and was shortlisted for both the Commonwealth Literary Prize (Hazard Zones ) and the Governor General's Literary Awards (Gloria ). The Clarinet Polka was awarded the Creative Arts Prize by the Polish American Historical Association. His poetry collection, Dementia Americana , won the Gerald Lampert Award in 1995 for the Best First Book of Poetry Published in Canada.
Keith was born and raised in Wheeling, West Virginia, the inspiration for the fictional town of Raysburg, which serves as the setting for many of his novels. He has been a musician, a contributor for CBC Radio, a freelance photographer and journalist, and a designer of distance education courses. His reviews, essays, and poems have appeared in many journals, ranging from Event to Flare . He is currently chair of the creative writing program at the University of British Columbia. He lives in West Vancouver with his wife and two daughters.
The Globe and Mail called Difficulty at the Beginning "a work of terrible beauty and grace, a masterpiece fit to contend with the best novels of the last century." Be sure to check out all four volumes—Running , Morgantown , Lyndon Johnson and the Majorettes , and Looking Good —now available as e-books!
Please visit Keith online at keithmaillard.com . You can also find him on Facebook or follow him on Twitter at @keithmaillard .
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