Michael Blair
Photo: Debbie C. Laramée
Michael Blair was born in Montreal in 1946 but was dragged kicking and screaming to Toronto in 1954. He started writing in high school, but it wasn¹t until 1968, after a one-week stint with the Royal Canadian Air Force – they came to the mutual understanding that democracy didn¹t need his protection; besides, they added, he had a problem with authority, which he promptly denied – that he decided to try to make a career of it. To support his family and his writing habit, he¹s worked at an assortment of jobs: carpentry, deli counterman, retail store display, freelance art reviewer and copy writer, bookstore proprietor, computer network administrator. In 1980 he moved to Montreal, where he now lives and works, when not working on his next novel, reading, hiking, kayaking or generally idling about, as a freelance technical writer and editor.
