Patrick Lane
Contributor Banff Centre Press
Patrick Lane was born in Nelson, BC in 1939. After the Second World War his family moved to Vernon where he went to school, married young, and went to work in the mills and camps of central BC. He began writing seriously in 1960. He moved to Vancouver in 1965, a few months after his brother’s early death and became involved in the new wave of literature that has since become the measure of our Canadian identity in words. He has travelled the world, lived everywhere in Canada at one time or another, and presently resides in Victoria with his wife, the poet Lorna Crozier. He is the author of twenty-five books of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and children’s literature. His work has been translated into many languages, and he is considered by most writers and critics to be one of the finest writers of his generation.