John Robert Colombo, CM is a Canadian poet, anthologist, editor, essayist, and humorist, the author of innumerable books, best known as a writer and compiler of reference works and editor of anthologies pertaining to Canadian culture, history and geography, and the fields of science fiction, fantasy, and horror; his Other Canadas [1979] was the first anthology of Canadian science fiction and fantasy, and established the case that such a thing actually did exist.
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- John Robert Colombo, CM is a Canadian poet, anthologist, editor, essayist, and humorist, the author of innumerable books, best known as a writer and compiler of reference works and editor of anthologies pertaining to Canadian culture, history and geography, and the fields of science fiction, fantasy, and horror; his Other Canadas [1979] was the first anthology of Canadian science fiction and fantasy, and established the case that such a thing actually did exist. He was a charter member of Hydra North, Canada's first association of SF professionals. He serves on the editorial board of the Battered Silicon Dispatch Box, a reprint publisher of classic pulp fiction, and runs his own publishing enterprise, Colombo & Company. Colombo's most famous works compile quotations by famous Canadian figures, in a format similar to Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. He has also been a prolific compiler of Canadian stories of the supernatural, including ghost and UFO stories. He is known nationally as "the Master Gatherer," "John 'Bartlett' Colombo," and "Canada's Mr. Mystery. " He was educated at the University of Toronto in English and philosophy, graduating in 1959. He subsequently taught at Atkinson College, York University, Downsview, Ont. , but is mainly known as an "editor-at-large. " He is a recipient of the Centennial Medal, the Order of Cyril and Methodius (1st class), the Harbourfront Literary Award, a D. Litt. (h.c. ) from York University and the Order of Canada. An occasional contributor to newspapers and magazines as well as radio and television, he hosted the six-part series Unexplained Canada on Space, which premiered in January 2006. John Robert Colombo is a frequent commentator in the media. In 1990 he began to offer instructional courses on presentation skills with Canada's Presentation Guru, Peter Urs Bender, at the Canadian Management Centre, Toronto, Canada.
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- Harbourfront International Literary Award,
Honourary doctorate in literature by York University,
Member of the Order of Canada,
The Centennial Medal,
The Order of Cyril and Methodius ,
Esteemed Knight of Mark Twain,
A Fellow, Northrop Frye Centre,Victoria College, University of Toronto.
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- John Robert Colombo, August 2009
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- True Canadian Ghost Stories (Prospero, 2003),
The Monster Book of Canadian Monsters (BSDB, 2004),
1000 Questions about Canada (Hounslow, 2001)
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- John Robert Colombo, CM is a Canadian poet, anthologist, editor, essayist, and humorist, the author of innumerable books, best known as a writer and compiler of reference works and editor of anthologies pertaining to Canadian culture, history and geography, and the fields of science fiction, fantasy, and horror; his Other Canadas [1979] was the first anthology of Canadian science fiction and fantasy, and established the case that such a thing actually did exist.
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