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Douglas George Fetherling (born 1949) is a Canadian poet, novelist, and cultural commentator.[1] One of the most prolific figures in Canadian letters, he has written or edited more than fifty books, including a dozen volumes of poetry, five book-length fictions, and a memoir. He lives in Vancouver. He has been the weekly literary columnist at five metropolitan newspapers and several national magazines. He has been writer-in-residence at Queen's University, the University of Toronto and the University of New Brunswick. He published under the name Douglas Fetherling until 1999, and thereafter under the name George Fetherling, switching to his middle name to honour his father George after recovering from life-saving surgery for the same medical condition that had killed his father.[2]
He started in the Canadian literary industry in 1966 in Toronto, where he was the first employee of publisher House of Anansi.
A study of Fetherling's books George Fetherling and His Work, edited by Linda Rogers, features essays by W. H. New, George Elliott Clarke, Brian Busby and others.
- ^ Virginia Gillese and Karen Grandy, "Douglas Fetherling". The Canadian Encyclopedia, January 21, 2008.
- ^ Bill Cameron, "Douglas Fetherling becomes a George: After three decades, 50 books, writer risks commercial suicide". National Post, April 7, 2001.