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. What he saw while he waited for rescue would haunt him for the next 25 years.	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	2001 Salamander (novel)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	2004 The Logogryph: A Bibliography of Imaginary Books (short stories)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	2008 The Shadow of Malabron (novel)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
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Awards

• Canada Reads
  • 2008 – Icefields – Shortlisted

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

Links

• Wharton's blog
• Thomas Wharton on LibraryThing

Added 06 February 2008.
Updated 16 May 2010.