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Occupation	bookbinder
Location	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Introduction	born 1951 in Edmonton AB. grew up in Windsor ON, MA from U of Windsor in Romance Linguistics, Studied bookbinding with Beatrice Stock, Seamas McClafferty and Betsy Palmer Eldridge in Toronto. Binding since age 11 when I rebound my Bantam paperback copies of all the Horatio Hornblower novels in some blue raincoat fabric that my sister had left over from a Home Ec. project. I still have them and they keep me humble. Binding professionally since 1980.
Interests	old books, travel writing, calligraphy, small press/self publishing, tank warfare, London, my family
Favorite music	some Classical, a smattering of Jazz, rock from the late '60's and early '70's, Blues, early Punk,
Favorite books	Anthony Powell, Kipling -particularly "Kim", most Robert Louis Stevenson,