Howard Edwin "John" Mills (June 23, 1930 – January 16, 2016) was a Canadian writer, professor of medieval literature and publisher of novels and essays.
Mills was born in London, England in 1930 to working-class parents.[1] He went to high school in Sutton, just south of the city. He won a Surrey Agricultural scholarship to The University of Wales at Bangor, but spent most his time mountain climbing and did not graduate.
Careeredit
Mills worked in Scandinavia for a few months, then was conscripted into the British Army in 1950 and served two years, one of them in Germany. He got a job in England as a technical writer, and the immigrated to Canada in 1952. He worked at various jobs, including encyclopaedia salesman and technical writer, and then he became a radar installer first on the Mid-Canada Line, then on the DEW-Line in the Canadian Arctic. He moved to Montreal in 1959 and worked as a tutor and a laundryman.
Mills married in 1960 and moved to Vancouver in 1961, and attended the University of British Columbia. In 1964 he received a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship at Stanford University where he completed a master's degree. In 1965 he finished his graduate work at Stanford and got a job at the then newly opened Simon Fraser University. In 1969 he was an assistant professor of English.
Mills wrote a number of novels and essays, and through part-time studies at the Vancouver School of Theology he received a Master's of Theological Studies degree in 1988. He served as a professor of medieval literature at Simon Fraser until his retirement in 1995 as a Professor Emeritus.[2] In 2014 he lived in Vancouver. Mills died January 16, 2016.[3]
Publicationsedit
Some of his essays and books include: The Land of Is (1972),[4]The October Men, Skevington’s Daughter,[5][6]Runner in the Dark (1992), Lizard in the Grass,[7][8]Thank your mother for the Rabbits (1993).[1]
Much of his material is more fully available in his book of autobiographical essays called "Thank your mother for the Rabbits". This book was shortlisted for the Hubert Evans Non-fiction Prize in 1994.[9][10]
^"Bubble-and-Squeak: Lizard in the Grass book review"[permanent dead link]. Canadian Literature.
^"In Brief: Lizard in the Grass". Books in Canada.
^"Hubert Evans Non-fiction Prize". Canadian Books & Authors.
^"1994 Winners & Finalists" 2016-06-02 at the Wayback Machine. BC Book Awards.
^Harvey, Roderick W. "Private Realities"[permanent dead link]. Canadian Literature, 23 Apr. 2013. Web. 6 Mar. 2016.
^Leslie, Susan. "Epistle-packing Stella"[dead link]. Books in Canada, Jun/Jul78, Vol. 7 Issue 6, p14. June 1978. (via EbscoHost, subscription required)
May 02, 2024
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