David Watmough
David Arthur Watmough was a Canadian playwright, short story writer and novelist.
Watmough was born in London, England, and attended King's College London. He has worked as a reporter and an editor. He immigrated to Canada in 1960, to Kitsilano in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he lived for 40 years with his partner, ex-Californian Floyd St. Clair, an opera critic and, from 1963 till his retirement in 1996, a University of British Columbia French professor. He became a Canadian citizen in 1967.
Watmough lived from 2004 to 2009 in Boundary Bay and before his death had been living at Crofton Manor, a Vancouver assisted-living facility.
In 2008 he published his autobiography, "Myself Through Others: Memoirs".
Selected bibliography
- 1951: A Church Renascent: A Study in Modern French Catholicism, London: S.P.C.K.
- 1967: Names for the Numbered Years: Three Plays, Vancouver: Bau-Xi Gallery
- 1972: Ashes for Easter and Other Monodramas, Talonbooks
- 1975: From a Cornish Landscape, Padstow, Cornwall: Lodenk Press
- 1975: Love & The Waiting Game, Oberon
- 1978: No More Into the Garden, Doubleday
- 1982: Collected Shorter Fiction of David Watmough: 1972–82
- 1982: Unruly Skeletons
- 1984: The Connecticut Countess, Crossing Press
- 1984: Fury, Oberon
- 1986: Vibrations in Time, Mosaic
- 1988: The Year of Fears, Mosaic
- 1992: Thy Mother's Glass, Harper Collins,
- 1994: The Time of the Kingfishers, Arsenal Pulp Press,
- 1996: Hunting With Diana, Arsenal Pulp Press,
- 2002: The Moor is Dark Beneath the Moon, Dundurn,
- 2005: Vancouver Voices, Ripple Effect Press,
- 2007: Geraldine, Ekstasis,
- 2008: Coming Down the Pike: Sonnets, Ekstasis,
- 2008: Myself Through Others: Memoirs, Dundurn,
- 2010: Eyes and Ears on Boundary Bay, Ekstasis,
- 2011: To Each an Albatross, Ekstasis,
- 2013: Songs from the Hive, Ekstasis,