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Linwood Barclay is a Canadian journalist, columnist, and humorist who has published several books of humor, a memoir, and crime novels featuring a writer named.!
Linwood Barclay is a former columnist for The Toronto Star and the author of several critically acclaimed novels, including Too Close to Home and No Time.
Linwood Barclay
American born, Canadian humourist, author and former columnist.
Linwood Barclay (born 1955) 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 2007.
Biography
Linwood Barclay was born in Darien, Connecticut, son of Muriel and Everett Barclay.
His father was a professional illustrator who moved his family to Canada in 1959 where he had accepted a job with William R. Templeton Studios in Toronto. In 1966 the family purchased a vacation campground in Bobcaygeon, Ontario, which they ran for about five years until his father died from lung cancer when Barclay was sixteen.[3]
Barclay recognized his interest in writing detective fiction at an early age, inspired by the works of Ross Macdonald, who had grown up in Kitchener, Ontario.[4] After graduating from high school Barclay studied lit
