George Szanto was born in 1940 in Derry, Northern Ireland. He earned a B.A. in German and French from Dartmouth College in 1962 and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1967. From 1974 to 2000, he taught communications and comparative literature at McGill University. Szanto lives on Gabriola Island, British Columbia.
Books by George Szanto
1972
Narrative Consciousness: Structure and Perception in the Fiction of Kafka, Beckett and Robbe-Grillet (nonfiction)
1978
After the Ceremony (play)
1978
Sixteen Ways to Skin a Cat (stories)
1978
Theater & Propaganda (nonfiction)
1981
The New Black Crook (play)
1981
The Next Move (play)
1982
Not Working (novel)
1983
The Great Chinchilla War (with Milton Savage, play)
1987
Narrative Taste & Social Perspectives: The Matter of Quality (nonfiction)
1989
Duets (with Per Brask, short stories)
1990
The Underside of Stones (novel)
1991
A Modest Proposition to the People of Canada Concerning the Pervasive Ills and Divisions afflicting the Nation, including but not limited to the Anguish of a Land rent Asunder by heinous Tax Bills, Curtailment of Economic Opportunity, the Plight of the Middle Classes, and Quebec (nonfiction)
1994
Friends & Marriages (connected stories)
1996
Inside the Statues of Saints: Mexican Writers on Culture and Corruption, Politics and Daily Life (nonfiction)
2001
The Condesa of M. (novel)
2004
Second Sight (novel)
2009
Never Sleep With a Suspect on Gabriola Island (with Sandy Frances Duncan)
2010
Always Kiss the Corpse on Whidbey Island (with Sandy Frances Duncan)
2011
The Tartarus House on Crab (novel)
2011
Never Hug a Mugger on Quadra Island (with Sandy Frances Duncan)
2013
Bog Tender (memoir)
Coming Home to Nature and Memory
2013
Always Love a Villain on San Juan Island (with Sandy Frances Duncan)
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