Douglas Glover won the Governor Generals Award for fiction for Elle in November 2003, propelling this unusual historical novel onto bestseller lists throughout Canada. Even though he is always working outside the box, Glovers works of fiction have gained acclaim from the most attentive critics. A Canadian itinerant, Glover grew up on the family tobacco farm in southwestern Ontario, studied philosophy at York University and the University of Edinburgh, and then worked on a series of daily newspapers in New Brunswick, Ontario, Quebec and Saskatchewan before earning his MFA at the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1982. He is the author of four story collections, four celebrated novels (Precious, The South Will Rise at Noon, The Life and Times of Captain N and Elle), and a book of essays, Notes Home from a Prodigal Son. Glover's fiction has been translated into Spanish, Japanese, Russian, and French, and his stories have been frequently anthologized.