Wayland Miller Drew, 1932-1998

Wayland Miller Drew died December 3, 1998. His funeral was held in Bracebridge, Ontario. He was survived by his wife Gwendolyn, his 4 children (Scott, Marda, PaulA & Cindy), and by 6 grandchildren. Contributions to the ALS Society of Canada or the South Muskoka Hospital Foundation would be appreciated by the family.

He was born in Oshawa, Ontario. He was an author, teacher and environmentalist. In 1991 he was honoured by Trent University (Peterborough, Ontario) with a "Doctor of Letters" degree.

For a more in depth look at his writing and life, I highly recommend reading "An Interview with Wayland Drew" by Andy Belyea published by Treeline: Canadian Writing on the Net (ISSN:1208-2538) located at http://130.179.92.25/treeline/oak/i970203a.htm.

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Novels:

Movie novelization.
Corvette Summer (Signet, 1978)
Movie novelization. Non SF.

Dragonslayer (Ballantine Del Rey, 1981)
Movie novelization.

The Erthring Cycle (SFBC, 1986)
Omnibus edition of the "Erthring" trilogy.

The Gaian Expedient (Ballantine Del Rey, 1985)
Book 2 of "The Erthring Cycle" trilogy.

Halfway Man (Oberon, 1989)
Non SF. CanLit.

The Master of Norriya (Ballantine Del Rey, 1986)
Book 3 in "The Erthring Cycle" trilogy.

The Memoirs of Alcheringia (Ballantine Del Rey, 1984)
Book 1 of "The Erthring Cycle" trilogy.

The Wabeno Feast (Anansi, 1973)
This was his first published novel. CanLit.

Willow (Ballantine Del Rey, 1988)
Movie novelization.

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Other books:

A Sea Within: The Gulf Of St. Lawrence (McClelland & Stewart, 1984)
Photos by Bruce Littlejohn. Text by Wayland Drew.

Brown's Weir (?, 197?)
with Gwendolyn Drew.

Superior: The Haunted Shore (Gage, 1975)
Photos by Bruce Littlejohn. Text by Wayland Drew.
Revised edition published by Firefly Books in 1995.

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Shorter works:

"The Old Soul", in Once Upon a Time: A Treasury of Modern Fairy Tales,
edited by Lester del Rey & Risa Kessler (Ballantine Del Rey, 1991)

plus a fair bit of non-SF work

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Main information sources were: my bookshelves and the web sites of Locus, Advanced Book Exchange, Treeline and The Globe & Mail.

Corrections requested.

-Dennis Mullin
dmullin@sentex.net

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