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About

Mark Abley

Mark Abley was born in Leamington Spa, England, in 1955. From age six to twenty he lived in Lethbridge and Saskatoon. After winning a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Saskatchewan, he went to Oxford on a Rhodes scholarship and received his Master of Arts degree in English Language and Literature. He and his wife live in Montreal.

For the past seven years, Mark Abley has been a contributing editor to Macleans's and a regular writer for Saturday Night, CBC Radio's "Ideas" and The Times Literary Supplement. He has also written for the Globe and Mail, Canadian Literature, The Listener, and the New Statesman.

Books by Mark Abley

Conversations With a Dead Man

Indigenous Rights and the Legacy of Duncan Campbell Scott

by (author) Mark Abley

Strange Bewildering Time

Istanbul to Kathmandu in the Last Year of the Hippie Trail

by (author) Mark Abley

The Organist

Fugues, Fatherhood, and a Fragile Mind

by (author) Mark Abley

Watch Your Tongue

What Our Everyday Sayings and Idioms Figuratively Mean

by (author) Mark Abley

The Look Book

Fall 2018 Sampler

by (author) Dave Williams, Bob McKenzie, Mark Abley, Anna Porter & Jay Triano

The Tongues of Earth

by (author) Mark Abley

Conversations with a Dead Man

The Legacy of Duncan Campbell Scott

by (author) Mark Abley

Woman Clothed in Words

by (author) Anne Szumigalski
edited by Mark Abley

Beyond Forget

by (author) Mark Abley

The Prodigal Tongue

Dispatches from the Future of English

by (author) Mark Abley

When Earth Leaps Up

by (author) Anne Szumigalski
edited by Mark Abley

The Silver Palace Restaurant

by (author) Mark Abley

Spoken Here

Travels among Threatened Languages

by (author) Mark Abley

Ghost Cat

by (author) Mark Abley
illustrated by Karen Reczuch