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Clark Blaise was born on 10 April, 1940 in Fargo, North Dakota, is a Canadian-American writer (born 1940). Discover Clark Blaise's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 83 years old?

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Occupation Writer
Age 83 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 10 April, 1940
Birthday 10 April
Birthplace Fargo, North Dakota
Nationality North Dakota

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Who Is Clark Blaise's Wife?

His wife is Bharati Mukherjee (d. 2017)

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Clark Blaise Net Worth

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1940

Clark Blaise, OC (born April 10, 1940) is a Canadian-American author.

He was a professor of creative writing at York University, and a writer of short fiction.

1961

He attended Denison University and the University of Iowa, graduating in 1961 and 1964 respectively.

While at Denison University, he initially intended to pursue a major in geology but switched to English after taking a writing course in which he studied under Paul Bennett.

While studying at Denison, he read extensively, began writing book reviews for the weekly newspaper, helped edit campus literary magazines, and received several campus writing awards.

1963

He married writer Bharati Mukherjee in 1963.

They met as students at the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa and have two sons.

1966

In 1966, Blaise moved to Montreal and obtained Canadian citizenship.

1970

While living in Montreal in the early 1970s, he taught creative writing at Concordia University; he also joined with authors Raymond Fraser, Hugh Hood, John Metcalf and Ray Smith to form the Montreal Story Tellers Fiction Performance Group.

1973

While living in Canada, Blaise published his first two short fiction collections, A North American Education (1973) and Tribal Justice (1974).

Blaise was the director of the International Writing Program.

1978

Blaise and Mukherjee collaborated on a memoir of experiences in India which was published in 1978.

In 1978, Blaise and Mukherjee moved to Toronto.

Blaise became a professor of creative writing at York University, and wrote his first novel.

Mukherjee felt excluded in Canada, attributing it to racism and publishing an essay in Saturday Night.

1980

In 1980, the couple decided to return to the United States, moving to San Francisco.

1985

Both continued their literary careers, including a collaborative analysis of the 1985 bombing of Air India flight 182, known in India as the Kanishka bombing.

Blaise wrote two more novels and a number of short stories.

2009

In 2009, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada "for his contributions to Canadian letters as an author, essayist, teacher, and founder of the post-graduate program in creative writing at Concordia University".

2010

In 2010, he was named an Officer of the Order of Canada.

Blaise was born in Fargo, North Dakota, to Canadian parents who lived in the United States.

His mother, Anne Marion Vanstone, was English-Canadian and from Wawanesa, Manitoba, and his father, Leo Romeo Blaise, was of French-Canadian descent and was a furniture salesman and long-distance traveller.

Later on, his father would inspire the father characters in Blaise's fiction.

Growing up, his family moved constantly throughout the U.S. Before the eighth grade, he had already moved 30 times; ultimately, he attended 25 different schools.

From ages six to ten, he lived in Florida.

Throughout his childhood, Blaise also lived in Alabama, Georgia, communities in the American Midwest, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, and Winnipeg.

When Blaise was nineteen, his parents divorced.

2017

Mukherjee died in 2017.

Blaise lives in New York.