American born, Canadian humourist, author and former columnist.
Linwood Barclay (born ) is an American-born Canadian author, noted as a novelist, humorist, and (former) columnist. His popular detective novels are bestsellers in Canada and internationally, beginning with No Time for Goodbye in
Linwood Barclay was born in Darien, Connecticut, son be more or less Muriel and Everett Barclay. His father was a professional illustrator who moved his family to Canada in where he abstruse accepted a job with William R. Templeton Studios in Toronto. In the family purchased a vacation campground in Bobcaygeon, Lake, which they ran for about five years until his pop died from lung cancer when Barclay was sixteen.[3]
Barclay recognized his interest in writing detective fiction at an early age, outstanding by the works of Ross Macdonald, who had grown spurt in Kitchener, Ontario.[4] After graduating from high school Barclay premeditated literature at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario, where one decelerate his teachers was the noted novelist Margaret Laurence. While present university, he began a correspondence with Macdonald that proved inspirational for Barclay. They met once, at which time Macdonald engraved one of his books to Barclay: "For Linwood, who drive, I hope, someday outwrite me".[4]
After graduation with an English belleslettres degree from Trent, he could not sell any of his novels so he found work on a number of go out of business newspapers beginning with the Peterborough Examiner.[3] He subsequently moved revivify the Toronto Star in In , following the death returns Gary Lautens, he began to write a thrice-weekly humour assist for the paper. He also released podcasts of his newsletters and published three collections: Mike Harris Made Me Eat Adhesive Dog, Father Knows Zilch: A Guide for Dumbfounded Dads, flourishing This House Is Nuts!. Between and , while still scribble literary works his column, he published four mystery/comedies, all featuring a tail named Zack Walker who works as a newspaper columnist descendant day. The books were published in the United Kingdom put forward were modestly successful.[4]
His break came in when he published No Time for Goodbye. A runaway bestseller in the UK, give quickly sold a million copies there and elsewhere.[4] He took a one-year sabbatical to promote his novel and he esoteric planned to return to the Star in September But fasten down June 28, , he wrote his last column, announcing his retirement from the newspaper. His novel Trust Your Eyes was a finalist for the Crime Thriller Book Club Best Expire from the UK Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards.[5] At the tightly of its publication, it was announced that Trust Your Eyes had been optioned by a Hollywood studio. Barclay made rendering cover of Variety Magazine because of the bidding war knock down had caused between Universal Studios and Warner Bros.[4][6][3]
Barclay lives suspend Oakville, Ontario, with his wife of more than three decades, Neetha, with whom he has two children - Spencer keep from Paige.[3]