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John Gray

John Gray is the author of a novel, many magazine articles, and several stage musicals, a book on tattoos, Lost in North America: The Imaginary Canadian in the American Dream (1994), Local Boy Makes Good (1987), and the internationally acclaimed Billy Bishop Goes to War (1982) with Eric Peterson. He has contributed sixty-five satirical pieces for The Journal on CBC Television, and is a frequent speaker on cultural issues. Among his many awards are the Governor General’s Award, the Canadian Authors Association Award, and the National Magazine Award. He lives in Vancouver.

December 2011 : Talonbooks Presents Karl and Christy Siegler's Farewell Bash

October 2011 : Billy Bishop Goes to War - Official Movie Trailer

June 2011 : Billy Bishop Returns to Soulpepper!

February 2011 : Billy Bishop Goes To War - Behind the Scenes

January 2011 : Billy Bishop: The Kid Who Couldn't Miss

January 2011 : Billy Bishop Goes To Rodeo

October 2010 : Soulpepper Is Nothing to Sneeze At

June 2010 : Dora Mavor Moore Award Nominations

BOOK AWARDS

Winner of the 1988 Canadian Authors Association Award

BOOK AWARDS

Winner of the 1980 The Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award

Winner of the 1982 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama

Winner of the 1999 Jessie Richardson Award: The Sun Readers’ Choice Award (Vancouver Playhouse)

QUOTES OF NOTE

More than just well written, entertaining and humorous, this book is also (gasp) moving.
— Montreal Gazette

QUOTES OF NOTE

“ Billy Bishop is a high-flying ace of a show, capturing the humour, the hellfire and the derring-do of an extraordinary career … The score is filled with vintage replicas of the kind of songs that sent men rushing in—and out—of battle. There are martial airs, barracksroom ditties, Kiplingesque tunes of glory, Gilbert and Sullivan-like patter songs and also a bitter brew of Brecht-Weill.” — New York Times

“ Billy Bishop Goes to War is a delightful—and cunningly wrought—work of art.” — New Yorker

“A landmark of the Canadian theatre … John Gray’s success with Billy Bishop lies in the universality of the human individual—a universality that works precisely because Gray has kept the show on one-individual terms. He creates and deflates the hero myth in the same gesture.” — Vancouver Sun