Gordon Stewart Anderson
Gordon Stewart Anderson (1958 – July 8, 1991) was a Canadian writer, whose novel The Toronto You Are Leaving was published by his mother 15 years after his death.[1]
Anderson was born in
A number of years after his death, his mother Marlene Lloyd discovered that a small publishing house had an unpublished manuscript for The Toronto You Are Leaving, a novel Anderson had written about life in Toronto's gay community in the late 1970s. She submitted the manuscript to several other publishers without success, and eventually edited and self-published the novel herself in 2006. The novel garnered a strong review in The Globe and Mail,[1] as well as significant attention in Canada's gay press.
Marlene Lloyd had also previously published a book of her own, Not a Total Waste: The True Story of a Mother, Her Son and AIDS, about Anderson's death.[3] She subsequently pitched a screenplay adaptation of Anderson's novel, although the film was never produced.[4]
See also
Notes and references
- ^ a b Bartley, Jim (2006-08-28). "Out and About in '70s Toronto". The Globe and Mail.
- ^ "Section 41 – Quilt".
- ISBN 978-0-88962-540-2.
- ^ "Queer as Folk meets Fame, but without the dancing". Toronto Star, November 22, 2007.
External links
- Untroubled Heart, publisher of The Toronto You Are Leaving Archived 2020-10-28 at the Wayback Machine
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