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Lively, illustrated and guaranteed to be controversial, this book serves as an unprecedented guide to books from and about British Columbia -- culled from Alan Twigg's unrivalled knowledge of over 200 years of BC literary history. It also identifies 150 essential authors, such as Alice Munro, Earle Birney and Eric Nicol, who do not have one particular book that is outstanding but have enjoyed outstanding careers. In addition to the ""essentials"", Twigg also describes numerous other authors and books that have played an important role in BC's history. It is an encyclopedia of BC books and illustrated with numerous photographs, many of them full-page. With the co-operation of UBC Special Collections and Simon Fraser University Library, this volume links the reader to thousands of important BC books and authors that can be researched on the author's public reference site, abcbookworld.com. This book provides a synthesis of a life's work devoted to British Columbia literature outside the boundaries of academe. It is a must-have for anyone who cares about British Columbia as an original society.

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Alan Twigg has written and published BC BookWorld, a cultural newspaper, since 1987. His seventeen books also include Cuba: A Concise History; Belize: A Concise History; 101 Top Historical Sites of Cuba; Intensive Care: A Memoir; Full-Time: A Soccer Story and Strong Voices: Conversations with 50 Canadian Writers. He has conceived and coordinated numerous literary prizes, and created and compiled a public service reference site, abcbookworld.com, to offer free information on more than 10,000 British Columbia authors. In 2000 he received the first annual Gray Campbell Award for outstanding contributions to the writing and publishing community of British Columbia. He has been the Shadbolt Fellow at Simon Fraser University and the first Writer in Residence at the George Price Center for Peace in Belize. He has also produced six films and a music CD for poet Bud Osborn. He makes his home in Vancouver.

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