Bruce McLean
Though this is Bruce McLean's first novel, he has spent his lifetime writing. He claims that his early experiences include the toughening experience of working as a rivet passer in a shipyard, deckhand on a coastal freighter, logging camp chockerman, and labourer at an oil refinery. But it was what followed that gave him his language chops. He spent thirty-five years as a newspaper reporter and in various editing jobs starting with the Nelson Daily News , Trail Daily Times , the Columbian (New...See more
Though this is Bruce McLean's first novel, he has spent his lifetime writing. He claims that his early experiences include the toughening experience of working as a rivet passer in a shipyard, deckhand on a coastal freighter, logging camp chockerman, and labourer at an oil refinery. But it was what followed that gave him his language chops. He spent thirty-five years as a newspaper reporter and in various editing jobs starting with the Nelson Daily News , Trail Daily Times , the Columbian (New Westminster, BC, ) Vancouver Sun , The Province , Globe and Mail , Toronto Telegram , and in London, England at the Croydon Times and Sunday Express . His storytelling in The Ma?ana Treehouse was inspired by the memory of his wife, Pauline St-Pierre Dion who spent the last seven years of her life with Alzheimer's. He became what's known as a 'bitter ender', with her all the way. See less