Kildare Dobbs

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Kildare Robert Eric Dobbs (October 10, 1923 – April 1, 2013) was a Canadian short‑story and travel writer. Born in Meerut, India, he was educated in Ireland and spent five years in the Royal Navy during World War II. After the war, he worked for the British Colonial Service in Tanganyika. He moved to Canada in 1952 and became a teacher, then an editor for Macmillan of Canada, managing editor of Saturday Night, and book editor for The Toronto Star Weekly.

Dobbs wrote fiction and travel writing. His story Running to Paradise won the Governor General’s Award for Fiction in 1962. He published many other books, including Reading the Time (1968), The Great Fur Opera (1970), Pride and Fall (1981), Historic Canada (1984) and Coastal Canada (1985).

He received the Order of Ontario in 2000 and the Order of Canada in 2013. Dobbs lived in Toronto with his wife, Linda Kooluris Dobbs, a noted portrait artist. He died in 2013 at age 89 and was cremated; his ashes are interred in the family grave in Castlecomer, Ireland.