English 2060E Lecture Notes - Strait Of Juan De Fuca, Archibald Menzies, George Bowering
Document Summary
According to roy miki s chronology, a record of writing: an annotated and illustrated. Bibliography of george bowering (1989), bowering was born in 1935 in penticton, bc (xv). He always acknowledges his early connection to the interior of b. c. , however. During his childhood in the interior, he and his parents lived in a number of small towns, and he grew up in oliver. Bowering left the interior to attend college in victoria in 1953, never returning to stay, despite maintaining his family connections there. Vancouver became the primary site of his adult life. He came to vancouver for an education and has never really left it, returning after travelling and spending the occasional year or so as writer-in-residence or lecturer at various canadian institutions. In 1957, he began his undergraduate career at ubc, acquiring a ba in history and eventually attaining a master s degree in english and creative writing in 1963. He returned to vancouver and the university of.
