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.Writers in Electronic Residence - Crawford Kilian
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.
After graduation, Kilian was drafted into the United States Army where he completed a two-year tour of duty. After his tour of duty, he became a technical writer for the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, California.ABCBookWord - Keyword: Crawford Kilian
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 to 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, web writing, and books. After retirement he became a part-time writer-editor for The Tyee, an online newspaper based in Vancouver.
He currently lives in North Vancouver, British Columbia.
Selected works
Title Published Publisher Notes Wonders, Inc. 1968 Parnassus Press (Berkeley, CA)"Wonders, inc.". LC Online Catalog. Library of Congress (lccn.loc.gov). Retrieved 2016-02-13. A children's book, illustrated by John Larrecq The Last Vikings 1973 The Empire of Time 1978 Go Do Some Great Thing: The Black Pioneers of British Columbia 1978 2nd, expanded edition 2008Icequake 1979 Eyas 1982 Tsunami 1983 Exploring British Columbia's Past 1984 Brother Jonathan 1985 School Wars: The Assault on B.C. Education 1985 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, 2007Writing for the Web 1999 Republished in 2000, 2006, 2009Sell Your Nonfiction Book 2009
References
External links Writing for the Web blog by Kilian H5N1 Blog by Kilian Writing Fiction blog by Kilian