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Clark Blaise was born April 10, 1940 in Fargo, North Dakota. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa, and he was also the director of the International Writing Program. While living in Montreal in the early 1970s he joined with authors Raymond Fraser, Hugh Hood, John Metcalf and Ray Smith to form the celebrated Montreal Story Tellers Fiction Performance Group. In 2009, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada "for his contributions to Canadian letters as an author, essayist, teacher, and founder of the post-graduate program in creative writing at Concordia University.

His works include Southern Stories, Time Lord, Pittsburgh Stories, and Montreal Stories.

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