Crawford Kilian

Crawford Kilian
Born	February 7, 1941 (1941-02-07) (age 70) New York City, United States
Occupation	Novelist
Nationality	Canadian
Genres	Fantasy, Science-fiction, Non-fiction

Crawford Kilian (born February 7, 1941) is a Canadian novelist and a college professor. He is also the former public education columnist for the Vancouver Province newspaper. Kilian holds an undergraduate degree from Columbia University and master's degree from Simon Fraser University.^[1]

Biography

Born in New York City, Crawford Kilian grew up in Los Angeles and Mexico City. He graduated from Santa Monica High School in 1958 and moved back to New York to attend college. Kilian completed his undergraduate career at Columbia University in 1962.^[1]

After graduation, Kilian was drafted into the United States Army where he completed a two year tour of duty.^[1] After his tour of duty, he became a technical writer for the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, California.^[2]

Shortly after he moved to Vancouver, Canada, where he began his education career. Kilian taught in two British Columbia community colleges between 1967 and 2008, of which five months were spent in China from 1983 - 1984. Kilian's first teaching position was at the Vancouver post-secondary institution, Vancouver Community College. Shortly after in 1968, he moved to Capilano College for its inaugural year. After 40 years at Capilano, he retired in the spring of 2008.

Kilian has published hundreds of articles on a wide range of topics including education, science, environment, politics, webwriting, and books. After retirement he became a part-time writer-editor for The Tyee, a online newspaper based in Vancouver.

He currently lives in North Vancouver, British Columbia.

Selected works

Title	Published	Publisher	Notes
Wonders, Inc.	1968
The Last Vikings	1973
The Empire of Time	1978
Go Do Some Great Thing: The Black Pioneers of British Columbia	1978		2nd, expanded edition 2008
Icequake	1979
Eyas	1982
Tsunami	1983
Exploring British Columbia's Past	1984
Brother Jonathan	1985
School Wars: The Assault on B.C. Education	1985		[3]
Lifter	1986
The Fall of the Republic	1987
Rogue Emperor	1988
Gryphon	1989
Greenmagic	1992
The Communications Book	1994
2020 Visions: The Futures of Canadian Education	1995
Redmagic	1995
Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy	1998		2nd edition, 2007
Writing for the Web	1999		Republished in 2000, 2006, 2009
Sell Your Nonfiction Book	2009

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Writers in Electronic Residence - Crawford Kilian
2. ^ ABCBookWord - Keyword: Crawford Kilian
3. ^ The History of Metropolitan Vancouver - 1985

External links

• Writing for the Web blog by Kilian
• H5N1 Blog by Kilian
• Writing Fiction blog by Kilian
• Crawford Kilian at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

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Name	Kilian, Crawford
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Date of birth	February 7, 1941
Place of birth	New York City, United States
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