Bert Archer

Bert Archer (born 1968) is a Canadian journalist, essayist and critic.

Archer was born in Montreal and lived in Calgary and Vancouver before attending St. Michael's University School in Victoria, British Columbia, the University of St. Michael's College at the University of Toronto, and Trinity College, Dublin. He was elected editor in chief of his college's arts journal, "The Grammateion" in his second undergraduate year, and as editor-in-chief of "The Mike", the college newspaper, a year later. The year after that, he was elected president of the Ontario region of the Canadian University Press, North America's oldest national student organization.

While still in school he worked as an assistant to editor David Colbert at Harper & Collins Canada. In 1994, he was hired as an editorial assistant by "Quill & Quire", Canada's national book trade magazine. Two years later, as review editor, Archer was pressured to resign after writing an essay in the "Financial Post" which some considered derogatory to certain elements in the Canadian publishing industry, specifically, the small presses. ["Book editor resigns over controversy", "Globe and Mail", Nov. 15, 1996.] He was subsequently hired as a columnist for the "Toronto Star", Canada's largest circulation newspaper, to review books published by small Canadian publishers.

Since then, Archer has been an editor at "NOW" and "Eye Weekly", Toronto's two weekly alternative arts magazines, as well as the "Toronto Star" and "The Globe and Mail". As of 2008, he is a columnist for "Toronto Life" magazine and writes for the "Globe and Mail".

He is the author of "The End of Gay (and the death of heterosexuality)", published in Canadacite web |url=http://www.randomhouse.ca/author/results.pperl?authorid=775 |title=Author Spotlight: Bert Archer |work=Random House |accessdate=2007-07-19] in 1999, in the UScite web |url=http://www.amazon.com/End-Gay-Death-Heterosexuality/dp/1904132073/ref=sr_1_1/104-8537328-6607127?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1182368086&sr=8-1 |title=Books: Bert Archer |work=Amazon.com |accessdate=2007-07-19] in 2002 and the UKcite web |title=Bert Archer |work=Vision Paperbacks |url=http://www.visionpaperbacks.co.uk/authorDetails.php?bookID=95 |accessdate=2007-07-19] in 2004. Archer has contributed chapters to two books: "Why Boys Are Better Than Girls" for "What I Meant to Say" (2006)cite web |title=Thomas Allen: What I Meant to Say |accessdate=2007-07-19 |url=http://www.thomas-allen.com/ThomasAllenPublishers/catalogue/0-88762-190-2.htm] and "Creating a Toronto of the Imagination" for "uTOpia" (2006).cite web |url=http://www.chbooks.com/catalogue/index.php?ISBN=1552451569 |title=uTOpia |accessdate=2007-07-19]

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