F. W. Watt

Frank Watt was born in Saskatchewan in 1927, brought up in Vancouver, educated at the University of British Columbia, Oxford University (as a Rhodes Scholar), and the University of Toronto, where he taught for thirty-three years. Since the 1950’s his publications have included scholarly books, articles, and reviews dealing with British, American and Canadian literature and labor history, as well as short stories and poems. It’s Over It’s Beginning (1986) brought together a selection of his verse for the first time in book form. On December 1, 2014, he published seven novels and a book of twenty-three short stories.