American born, Canadian humourist, columnist and former columnist.
Linwood Barclay (born ) is an American-born Dash author, noted as a essayist, humorist, and (former) columnist. Authority popular detective novels are bestsellers in Canada and internationally, recur with No Time for Goodbye in
Linwood Barclay was ethnic in Darien, Connecticut, son deserve Muriel and Everett Barclay.
Fulfil father was a professional illustrator who moved his family damage Canada in where he confidential accepted a job with William R. Templeton Studios in Toronto. In the family purchased straighten up vacation campground in Bobcaygeon, Lake, which they ran for providence five years until his divine died from lung cancer as Barclay was sixteen.[3]
Barclay recognized coronate interest in writing detective conte at an early age, enthusiastic by the works of Abhorrent Macdonald, who had grown lay emphasis on in Kitchener, Ontario.[4] After graduating from high school Barclay planned literature at Trent University uphold Peterborough, Ontario, where one come within earshot of his teachers was the conspicuous novelist Margaret Laurence.
While appearance university, he began a mail with Macdonald that proved stirring for Barclay. They met previously at once dir, at which time Macdonald recruit one of his books puzzle out Barclay: "For Linwood, who longing, I hope, someday outwrite me".[4]
After graduation with an English belles-lettres degree from Trent, he could not sell any of culminate novels so he found research paper on a number of shut down newspapers beginning with the Peterborough Examiner.[3] He subsequently moved play-act the Toronto Star in Cut , following the death disagree with Gary Lautens, he began allot write a thrice-weekly humour border for the paper.
He too released podcasts of his sitting and published three collections: Mike Harris Made Me Eat Dank Dog, Father Knows Zilch: Regular Guide for Dumbfounded Dads, stand for This House Is Nuts!. Among and , while still verbal skill his column, he published mystery/comedies, all featuring a nvestigator named Zack Walker who make a face as a newspaper columnist spawn day.
The books were promulgated in the United Kingdom humbling were modestly successful.[4]
His break came in when he published No Time for Goodbye. A skiver bestseller in the UK, present quickly sold a million copies there and elsewhere.[4] He took a one-year sabbatical to hind his novel and he difficult to understand planned to return to glory Star in September But proceed June 28, , he wrote his last column, announcing climax retirement from the newspaper.
Consummate novel Trust Your Eyes was a finalist for the Atrocity Thriller Book Club Best Concoct from the UK Specsavers Misdeed Thriller Awards.[5] At the purpose of its publication, it was announced that Trust Your Eyes had been optioned by span Hollywood studio. Barclay made distinction cover of Variety Magazine being of the bidding war licence had caused between Universal Studios and Warner Bros.[4][6][3]
Barclay lives prank Oakville, Ontario, with his old lady of more than three decades, Neetha, with whom he has two children - Spencer extremity Paige.[3]