Name Robert Oldham Role Writer | Education University of Toronto | |
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Books Saving the King: An Alternative Novel of World War Two | ||
Robert Oldham (born 1950) is a Canadian writer of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Besides his many poems and short stories, his published writings include two alternate history novels: in Saving the King and New Britain KZ1, Germany has occupied Britain after having won World War II. Book Three in the series, Napoleon IV 1943, was published in 2007.
Born in Epsom, England, Oldham immigrated to Canada in 1963. He worked for several years as a lab technician and completed a B.A. in History from the University of British Columbia in 1974. After receiving a master's degree in Library Sciences from the University of Toronto in 1978, he worked as a cataloguer for the Royal Ontario Museum Library before joining the staff of the Hamilton Public Library in 1979, where he currently works as a reference librarian. He has been married since 1976 and has three children. He lives in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.