Born in Huron County, Ontario, in 1947, and removed to Montreal at the age of three, Trevor Freguson was raised in the Park Extension district of the city until he ran away as a teenager. The son of a clergyman father and a teacher mother, he has lived and worked throughout Canada as well as the United States and Europe.

After dropping out of high school, Ferguson first gravitated toward Canada’s Northwest, where he worked on construction crews and railroad gangs, initially as a kitchen flunky, eventually as an operator of heavy equipment. During this period he began writing, working at night in the bunkhouses.

In his mid-twenties he returned to Montreal and settled into driving a taxi by night and writing by day. His work came to the attention of Dennis Lee, who edited his first novel, High Water Chants, published in 1977. In 1985 Onyx John appeared and earned rave reviews across the country.

Trevor Ferguson continues to live in Montreal with his wife, Lynne.

Books by Trevor Ferguson

Kinkajou, The

True Life Adventures of Sparrow Drinkwater, The

Timekeeper, The

Le Kinkajou

Train d'enfer

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