Chris Eaton (Canadian musician)
Chris Eaton, born in 1971 in Moncton, New Brunswick, is a Canadian indie rock musician and novelist. He founded Rock Plaza Central, a Toronto-based band, and is its lead singer. He began as a solo performer, often backing himself with different musicians and using improvisation. In 2003, the current Rock Plaza Central lineup formed in Toronto, and they recorded their first album soon after. Their second album, Are We Not Horses, received strong praise from Pitchfork.
Eaton is also a published author. His first novel, The Inactivist (2003), has been studied in courses at McGill University and the University of South Alabama. His second novel, The Grammar Architect (2006), reimagines Thomas Hardy’s A Pair of Blue Eyes. In 2010 he published Letters To Thomas Pynchon as an eBook with Joyland. His 2013 novel Chris Eaton, a Biography was well received and listed in several year-end roundups.
His fourth novel, Symphony No. 3 (2019), inspired by the life of Camille Saint-Saëns, was a finalist for the 2020 New Brunswick Book Awards and has been praised for its bold structure and strong prose.
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