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Author Bank

Our Author Bank is available for free and fast downloads. This separate site at www.abcbookworld.com provides instant bibliographical and biographical information for more than 9000 authors. We aim to be of social service. We value education.

British Columbia-related authors can contribute factual data about their careers by emailing us at with the following information: bill bissett

Name
Date and place of birth
Place of residence
Arrival in Canada and BC, if relevant
Ancestral background if relevant
Other employment
Books published, most recent first; include publisher and year of publication
Literary awards
Biographical Details (No reviews)
URL to photo
Email

This is a free service, but we reserve the right to exclude content and to edit or re-write all submissions to suit the public service-oriented style of the site. It can take several weeks to gather the accumulated submissions and post them for posterity.

The site is hosted by SFU Library. This is a permanent record for the
sake of British Columbia literary history. I expect information on this
site will out-live everyone thus far mentioned.

George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award

The GEORGE WOODCOCK LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD annually honours an outstanding literary career in British Columbia. Since 1994, the City of Vancouver (Mayor of Vancouver's office), the Vancouver Public Library, and a non-profit society (Pacific BookWorld News Society, founded in 1988) have been working in partnership to jointly sponsor and present an annual prize to a senior B.C. author. Find out more about the George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award here.

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