Trevor Ferguson
Contributor Banff Centre Press
Born in Ontario in 1947, raised in Montreal, Trevor Ferguson lived and worked in Canada’s northwest from 1964 until he returned to Montreal in 1970 to drive a taxi by day and write novels by night. His first book was High Water Chants (Macmillan, 1977). He is now the author of six novels under his own name, most recently The Timekeeper (1996) and The Fire Line (1995) both HarperCollins. In 1999, under the pen name John Farrow, he published his seventh novel, the thriller, City of Ice (HarperCollins, Canada; Random House, US, UK; Grasset, France), which received considerable acclaim in eighteen countries. The sequel, Ice Lake, was published in the spring of 2001. Since 2002, Trevor Ferguson has had three plays produced, Long, Long, Short, Long; Beach House, Burnt Sienna; and Barnacle Wood. A past-chair of The Writers’ Union of Canada, he has been a Writer-in-Residence at the University of Alberta, an invité d’honneur at the Salon des Livres in Montreal, on the creative writing faculties of Concordia University and The Banff Centre, and was among the Quebec authors invited as honoured guests of the Paris Book Fair in 1999 and the Guadalajara Book Fair in 2003. Ferguson lives in Montreal.