Clark Blaise

Clark Blaise, OC (born 10 April 1940) is a Canadian author.

Born in Fargo, North Dakota, he currently lives in San Francisco, California. He has been married since 1963 to writer Bharati Mukherjee. They have two sons. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa, Blaise was also the director of the International Writing Program. While living in Montreal in the early 1970s he joined with authors Raymond Fraser, Hugh Hood, John Metcalf and Ray Smith to form the celebrated Montreal Story Tellers Fiction Performance Group.

In 2009, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada "for his contributions to Canadian letters as an author, essayist, teacher, and founder of the post-graduate program in creative writing at Concordia University".^[1]

Bibliography

Short stories

• A North American Education - 1973
• Tribal Justice - 1974
• Resident Alien - 1986
• Man and His World - 1992
• Southern Stories - 2000
• Pittsburgh Stories - 2001
• Montreal Stories - 2003
• The Meagre Tarmac - 2011 (longlisted for the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize)

Novels

• Lunar Attractions - 1979 (winner of the 1980 Books in Canada First Novel Award)
• Lusts - 1984
• If I Were Me - 1997

Memoirs

• Days and Nights in Calcutta - 1977 (with Bharati Mukherjee)
• I had a Father - 1992

Non-fiction

• The Sorrow and the Terror: The Haunting Legacy of the Air India Tragedy - 1987 (with Bharati Mukherjee)
• Time Lord - 2000

References

1. ^ "Governor General Announces 57 New Appointments to the Order of Canada". Office of the Secretary to the Governor General. December 30, 2009. http://www.gg.ca/document.aspx?id=13469. Retrieved 2009-12-30. 

External links

• Clark Blaise's entry in The Canadian Encyclopedia
• Works by or about Clark Blaise in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

Persondata
Name	Blaise, Clark
Alternative names
Short description	Writer
Date of birth	10 April 1940
Place of birth	Fargo, North Dakota, United States
Date of death
Place of death