Thomas Wharton was born on 25 February 1963 in Grande Prairie, Alberta and moved with his family to Jasper when he was a teenager. After earning a diploma in biological sciences and working as a medical lab technician, Wharton received a B.A. in English in 1991 and an M.A. in English in 1993 from the University of Alberta and a Ph.D. in Creative Writing from the University of Calgary. Wharton teaches English and creative writing at the University of Alberta and lives in Edmonton.

Books by Thomas Wharton

	1995 Icefields (novel) On a climbing expedition in 1898, Dr. Ned Byrne slipped into a crevasse in the Arcturus Glacier.
	2001 Salamander (novel) A printer is hired to create an infinite book.
	2004 The Logogryph (short stories) Stories about books and reading.
	2008 The Shadow of Malabron (novel) A teenager crashes his father's motorcycle and ends up in the Perilous Realm.
	2012 The Fathomless Fire
	2013 The Tree of Story
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Awards

• Canada Reads
  • 2008 – Icefields – Shortlisted

• Governor General's Literary Awards: Fiction
  • 2001 – Salamander – Shortlisted

• International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
  • 2006 – The Logogryph – Shortlisted

• Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
  • 2001 – Salamander – Shortlisted

Series

• Perilous Realm
  1. The Shadow of Malabron
  2. The Fathomless Fire
  3. The Tree of Story

Links

• Official site

Comments

Added 06 February 2008.
Updated 01 June 2014.