Occupation Novelist Role Novelist | Name Roy MacSkimming Nationality Canadian | |
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Books The perilous trade, Cold War: The Amazing, Macdonald: A Novel, Laurier in Love: A Novel, Out of Love | ||
Roy MacSkimming Author of “Cold War.”
Roy MacSkimming is a Canadian novelist, non-fiction writer and cultural policy consultant.
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Born in Ottawa, Ontario and educated at the University of Toronto, MacSkimming broke into book publishing in 1964 at Clarke, Irwin and later co-founded New Press, one of Canada’s leading small presses of the 1970s. He has been books editor and literary columnist at The Toronto Star, and has contributed to a number of newspapers and periodicals, including The Globe and Mail, The Ottawa Citizen, Maclean's and Saturday Night. MacSkimming has served as publishing officer with the Canada Council for the Arts, and policy director of the Association of Canadian Publishers.
MacSkimming has written two novels with European settings: Formentera (1972), set in the Balearic Islands, and Out of Love (1993), set in Athens and Crete. He has also written Gordie: A Hockey Legend (1994), an unauthorized biography of Gordie Howe; and Cold War (1996), a reassessment of the 1972 Canada-Soviet hockey series.
MacSkimming draws on his professional lifetime in and around the publishing industry in The Perilous Trade: Publishing Canada's Writers (2003). The title was nominated for the National Business Book Award, and was a Globe and Mail Notable Book of the Year. It was reissued by McClelland & Stewart in an updated paperback edition in 2007.
MacSkimming's third novel, Macdonald, based on the final days of Canada’s founding prime minister Sir John A. Macdonald, was published in 2007. His most recent novel is Laurier in Love (2010), based on the tangled love life of Canadian prime minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier.
MacSkimming lives near Perth, Ontario.