Keith Maillard

Keith Maillard
Keith Maillard, Salt Spring Island, BC, 2015
Born (1942-02-28) 28 February 1942 (age 82)
Wheeling, West Virginia, U.S.
Occupations
  • Author
  • Educator

Keith Maillard (born 28 February 1942, in Wheeling, West Virginia) is an American Canadian novelist, poet, and professor of creative writing at the University of British Columbia.[1] He moved to Canada in 1970 (due to his opposition to the Vietnam War)[2][3] and became a Canadian citizen in 1976.[4][5]

  1. ^ Keith Maillard, UBC Creative Writing
  2. ^ Marilyn B. Young and Robert Buzzanco, eds., A Companion to the Vietnam War (John Wiley & Sons, 2002), 431.
  3. ^ Robert McGill, War is Here: The Vietnam War and Canadian Literature (McGill Queens, 2017), 198, 277.
  4. ^ Ohio County Public Library, "Wheeling Hall of Fame: Keith Maillard,"
  5. ^ William H. New, "Keith Maillard," Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada (University of Toronto Press, 2002), 700.