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Smith Ron
Writer - Canada
Born and raised in Vancouver, Ron is the author and editor of several books in his
pre-stroke life. For close to forty years he taught at universities in Canada, Italy, the
States and the UK. In 2002 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of
40 British Columbia and in 2005 he was the inaugural Fulbright Chair in Creative Writing
at Arizona State University.
In 2011 he was awarded the Gray Campbell Award for distinguished service to the
BC publishing industry where he has played an essential role in the growth of literary,
historical and public policy publishing. He lives with his wife, Patricia Jean Smith, also
a writer and now caregiver, in Nanoose Bay on Vancouver Island.
Ron suffered his stroke on November 19, 2012, at age 69. The written word had been
a life-long vocation and avocation, so several months into his on-going recovery he de-
cided one way back to discovering his former self was to write about his stroke experi-
ence. Immediately he began typing with the index finger on his left hand. Two years
later he had completed a 350 page book. He considers himself lucky to have known
the importance of story in all of our lives.
http://ronsdalepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/the_defiant_mind_sample.pdf
Writer - Canada
Born and raised in Vancouver, Ron is the author and editor of several books in his
pre-stroke life. For close to forty years he taught at universities in Canada, Italy, the
States and the UK. In 2002 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of
40 British Columbia and in 2005 he was the inaugural Fulbright Chair in Creative Writing
at Arizona State University.
In 2011 he was awarded the Gray Campbell Award for distinguished service to the
BC publishing industry where he has played an essential role in the growth of literary,
historical and public policy publishing. He lives with his wife, Patricia Jean Smith, also
a writer and now caregiver, in Nanoose Bay on Vancouver Island.
Ron suffered his stroke on November 19, 2012, at age 69. The written word had been
a life-long vocation and avocation, so several months into his on-going recovery he de-
cided one way back to discovering his former self was to write about his stroke experi-
ence. Immediately he began typing with the index finger on his left hand. Two years
later he had completed a 350 page book. He considers himself lucky to have known
the importance of story in all of our lives.
http://ronsdalepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/the_defiant_mind_sample.pdf
