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Douglas Gibson

Douglas Gibson started his career in publishing in 1968 as an editor with Doubleday Canada. In 1974 he joined Macmillan of Canada as Editorial Director and became Publisher in 1979. In 1986 he joined McClelland & Stewart as Editor and Publisher of his own imprint. From 1988 to 2004 he also served as Publisher for McClelland & Stewart. In 1991 he received the Canadian Booksellers’ Association President’s Award and in 2005, at the Canadian Book Expo, the annual meeting of the book trade in Canada, he received the award “Editor of the Year.”

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An Appreciation of Alice Munro

Summer 2006 | Essays

  Before I present a book at a sales conference, I’ll slip quickly through it again, just to remember it all. By this point I’ll have read the book three, four times at least, maybe five times, but I just want to refresh my memory. And the d [...]