The LAST ARTIST (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781533398710)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR J.A. Wainwright was born in Toronto, Canada. Since 1972 he has lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia where he is McCulloch Emeritus Professor in English at Dalhousie University. His areas of specialization were contemporary and Canadian literature and popular culture, including a class on Bob Dylan and literature of the 1960s and he has given readings from his fiction and poetry collections in Canada, the U.S.A and Europe. His first novel, A Deathful Ridge: a Novel of Everest, was shortlisted for the Boardman-Tasker Prize in Mountain Literature in 1997, and his biography of painter Robert Markle, Blazing Figures, was shortlisted for the ForeWord Magazine Literary Prize in the U.S. in 2010. Poetry Publications: Moving Outward, Toronto: New Press, 1970 The Requiem Journals, Fredericton: Fiddlehead Books, 1976 After the War, Oakville, Mosaic Press, 1981 Flight of the Falcon: Scott's Journey to the South Pole, Mosaic Press, 1987 Landscape and Desire: Selected Poems, Mosaic Press, 1992 Fiction Publications: A Deathful Ridge: a Novel of Everest, Mosaic Press, 1997 A Far Time, Mosaic Press, 2001 The Confluence, Mosaic Press, 2007 Biographies: Charles Bruce: World Enough and Time, Formac Publishing, 1988 Blazing Figures: A Life of Robert Markle, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2010