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Linwood Barclay
American born, Canadian humourist, author and former columnist.
Linwood Barclay (born ) is an American-born Canadian author, noted as a novelist, humorist, and (former) columnist.
His popular detective novels are bestsellers in Canada and internationally, beginning with No Time for Goodbye in
Biography
Linwood Barclay was born in Darien, Connecticut, son of Muriel and Everett Barclay.
His father was a professional illustrator who moved his family to Canada in where he had accepted a job with William R. Templeton Studios in Toronto. In the family purchased a vacation campground in Bobcaygeon, Ontario, which they ran for about five years until his father died from lung cancer when Barclay was sixteen.[3]
Barclay recognized his interest in writing detective fiction at an early age, inspired by the works of Ross Macdonald, who had grown up in Kitchener, Ontario.[4] After graduating from high school Barclay studied literature at Trent Uni