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William New was born in 1938 in Vancouver. A graduate of the University of British Columbia and the University of Leeds, and a prize-winning teacher and writer, he taught at UBC for almost four decades. Author and editor of some fifty books and several scores of essays and reviews, he was awarded the Royal Society of Canada's Lorne Pierce Medal in 2004. For his services to creative and critical writing he was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2006. His creative works include five books for children, from Vanilla Gorilla (1998) to the internationally honoured The Year I Was Grounded (2008); and his poetry collections include Science Lessons (1996), Underwood Log (2004, shortlisted for the Governor General's Award), YVR (2011, winner of the City of Vancouver Award), Neighbours (2017), and In the Plague Year (2021).

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