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Nationality
  
Canadian

Role
  
Humorist

Name
  
Arthur Black

Known for
  
Basic Black

Occupation
  
humorist


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Born
  
30 August 1943 (age 80) (
1943-08-30
)
Toronto, Ontario

Books
  
Fifty Shades of Black, Black in the Saddle Again, Black by Popular Demand, Looking Blackward, Black Tie and Tales

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Arthur Black (born 30 August 1943) is a Canadian humorist and radio personality, best known as the longtime host of Basic Black on CBC Radio. He also publishes a regular humour column syndicated to 50 Canadian newspapers.

Contents

Black is a three-time winner of the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour.

Black now lives on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia.

Books

  • Basic Black: The Wit and Whimsy of Arthur Black (1981)
  • Back to Black (1986)
  • Arthur! Arthur! (1991)
  • That Old Black Magic (1989)
  • Black by Popular Demand (1994)
  • Black in the Saddle Again (1996)
  • Black Tie and Tales (1999)
  • Flashblack! (2002)
  • Black & White and Read All Over (2004)
  • Pitch Black (2006)
  • Black Gold (2006)
  • Black to the Grindstone (2007)
  • Planet Salt Spring (audiobook) (2009)
  • Black is the New Green (2009)
  • A Chip Off the Old Black (2010)
  • Looking Blackward (2012)
  • Fifty Shades of Black (2013)
  • Paint the Town Black (2015) Harbour Publishing

    • References

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