1 / 17

Brian Fawcett: Biography, Influences and More

Explore the life and works of Canadian writer Brian Fawcett, from his upbringing in Prince George, BC to his role as a community organizer, writer, and anarchist. Discover his influences, including Malcolm Lowry, and his writing style that tackles major global events. Learn about his beliefs in anarchism and his commitment to perfecting his writing through meticulous editing.

lisagray
Download Presentation

Brian Fawcett: Biography, Influences and More

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Brian Fawcett: Biography, Influences and More By: Nicholas, Dan, Jonathan, Nicole, Joe Lin & Vaishnavi

  2. Brian Fawcett’s Life (Biography) • Born and raised in Prince George, BC. on May 13, 1944 • Son of Hartley and Rita Fawcett • Graduated from Simon Fraser University (SFU) • Before writing, was a community organizer and urbanPlanner in Greater Vancouver • Co-Founded dooneyscafe.com alongside Stan Persky • Has taught in maximum security federal prisons • Currently lives in Toronto, Ontario with his second wife, Leanna Crouch, and his daughter Hartlea.

  3. Prince George, BC Toronto, Ontario

  4. Some of his Books: The Ruins in the Sky - 1958 Cambodia - 1988 Cats in Space and Other Places - 1992 The Compact Garden - 1992 Gender Wars - 1994 Human Happiness - 2011 The Last of the Lumbermen - 2013

  5. Sources http://www.newstarbooks.com/author.php?author_id=2937 http://m.openbooktoronto.com/news/ten_questions_with_brian_fawcett https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/379956.Brian_Fawcett

  6. Malcolm Lowry “He wrote one great novel: Under the Volcano. He wrote several very bad novels” -Fawcett

  7. Background -Son of a wealthy cotton broker -Became a deckhand at the age of 15 -Studied at Cambridge -Married to Jan Gabrial at age 25 -The couple moved to Hollywood, and again to Mexico -In Mexico Lowry started working on Under the Volcano -In Mexico Jan left Lowry for another man

  8. Work The Ultramarine - 1933 Under the Volcano - 1947 Posthumous: Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place, Selected Poems of Malcolm Lowry, Lunar Caustic, Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend Is Laid, October Ferry to Gabriola, and more.

  9. Margerie Bonner Happy years in Dollerton : -An aspiring writer working as an actress -Followed Lowry to Canada -Was a good typist and editor -Also drank a lot

  10. Death -Died in 1957 -Inhaled vomit, too many sleeping pills, excessive alcohol -Suicide? Murder? Mistake?

  11. Sources https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/12/17/day-of-the-dead http://www.nfb.ca/film/volcano/ http://www.whistlingshade.com/0502/lowry.html https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/scl/article/view/7955/9012 http://quarterlyconversation.com/under-the-volcano-by-malcom-lowry-review http://biography.yourdictionary.com/malcolm-lowry

  12. Dooneyscafe.com Free website for writers Brian Fawcett has 175 articles. First article “dumping ronald” in Jan2001 Average 10 articles per year Glad Obama become president Respect to David Shield

  13. Anarchism -Do not believe in any sort of government or hierarchy, it should all be organized in a voluntary fashion and without force -Many forms /types • Political • Religious • Theoretical • Applied -Each slightly different, but all are around the same idea

  14. Anarchism Continued -Fawcett supports anarchism because he doesn’t trust authority and questions the way society is being run in the modern day of a superior group making laws society must follow. “I don’t trust any authority, and that is my problem.” (pg 13) “There are structural reasons to distrust any and all authority, or at least to subject it to an going process of interrogation.” (pg 99)

  15. Sources for Anarchism https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/anarchism/ Fawcett, Brian. Cambodia. Talonbooks, 1986.

  16. Writing Style of Brian Fawcett. • Fawcett published seven poetry books before he started writing novels. • His novels are based on history and the major life changing events that took place. He writes about these events because he wants us, the readers to know what all we’ve faced as a Global Village. • In one of his interviews he was asked that how does he comes up with the ideas he writes about to this, he answered by saying that he is just a situationist and while writing he thinks about solving the problems the world faces. • Upon asking what led him to writing he said that a dead cat, curiosity and the need to find out why people try to let down one another.

  17. He also mentioned that reading and smoking inspires him while writing a book. • Fawcett works on many books at the same time so, he notes down his ideas on different colour papers. • It’s sometimes difficult for him to come up with ideas but otherwise he has a lot of things to write about. • Fawcett believes that it is important to have two minds work on a particular work so that it can be made sure that everything is perfect. • He believes that he is not a very good writer. So, in order to make sure his writing is perfect, he rethinks and edits his drafts around 40 times. • Fawcett is a good thinker so he writes in order to think and get ideas.

More Related