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Austin Clarke is one of Canada’s foremost authors, whose work includes ten novels, six short-story collections, three memoirs, and two collections of poetry. His novel The Polished Hoe won the 2002 Giller Prize. Clarke is a member of the Order of Canada, holds four honorary doctorates, and has been awarded the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the W.O. Mitchell Prize, the Casa de las Américas Prize, and the Martin Luther King Jr. Award for Excellence in Writing, among others. In his fifty-year career he has worked as a journalist, a professor, and a cultural attaché in Washington D.C. He lives in Toronto.

• 1 The Little Black Englishmen2 The Court Martial3 Toranno!… Toranno!… Toranno!…4 1960s Toronto5 The CBC Stagehand6 ÜJesus Christ, boy! You is a running-fool, a race horse!Ý7 Christmas, 19608 Timmins and Kirkland Lake9 Looking for “Colour”10 Harlem, 196311 Looking for Brother James and Brother Malcolm12 Aftermath13 Election Campaign, 197714 Georgia on My Mind15 A Walk from Asquith Avenue16 Mother’s Precepts and Commandments17 The Green Door House18 “Invisibility”19 The Culture of Chains20 Allies21 Audience with the Queen22 The “Loyalty of Negritude” in Sport23 “A Writer’s Life”24 Power Games25 Yale26 Aquarius27 The Old Boy28 HomeEpilogueAfterwordCredits

[I]t is difficult to think of another Canadian writer so equipped through experience and sensibility — and graciousness, it must be said — to trace the attempts, stuttering at times, that Canada has made from the 1960s onward to accommodate diversity.