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Keith Maillard

Keith Maillard is the author of fourteen novels, including Two Strand River, Gloria, The Clarinet Polka, Difficulty at the Beginning, and most recently Twin Studies. He has won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Literary Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Awards. Keith was born and raised in West Virginia, and now lives in Vancouver. He has been a musician, a contributor for CBC Radio, a freelance photographer, and a journalist. He teaches at the University of British Columbia.

Books by Keith Maillard

In the Defense of Liberty

The Bridge

Fatherless

Twin Studies

The Clarinet Polka

Lyndon Johnson and the Majorettes

Running

Morgantown

Looking Good

Lyndon Johnson and the Majorettes

Dementia Americana