George Szanto
George Szanto (born 1940 in Derry, Northern Ireland) is an American-Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, and scholar. He has written more than a dozen novels and short-story collections, as well as plays, literary criticism, mysteries, and a memoir. His work has appeared in journals such as Kansas Quarterly, Bucknell Review, Massachusetts Review, and the Canadian Comparative Literature Review, and in various anthologies. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and won the Hugh MacLennan Award for Fiction in 1995 for Friends & Marriages.
Szanto studied at Dartmouth College, the University of Frankfurt, and the University of Aix-Marseille, and earned his Ph.D. at Harvard in 1967. He taught comparative and dramatic literature at the University of California, San Diego, and at McGill University in Montreal. He co-authored four novels in the Islands Investigations International Mysteries series with Sandy Frances Duncan. He is married to Alison Szanto.
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