Graeme C. Gibson, CM is a Canadian novelist who lives in Toronto, Ontario. He is a Member of the Order of Canada and was one of the organizers of the Writer's Union of Canada. He is also a founder of the Writers' Trust of Canada, a non-profit literary organization that seeks to encourage Canada's writing community. He has a long-term relationship with novelist and poet Margaret Atwood which began in 1973. They moved to a farm near Alliston, Ontario, north of Toronto, where their daughter Eleanor Jess Atwood Gibson was born in 1976. The family returned to Toronto in 1980. He is generally best known for his 1973 book Eleven Canadian Novelists, a non-fiction work which in which he conducted extended interviews about literature and writing with Atwood, Austin Clarke, Matt Cohen, Marian Engel, Timothy Findley, Dave Godfrey, Margaret Laurence, Jack Ludwig, Alice Munro, Mordecai Richler and Scott Symons. In 1996 he decided to stop writing novels. At the time he was working on a novel titled Moral Disorder. Atwood borrowed the title for her collection of short stories published in 2006. 

August 9th, 1934 in London  /  Died:   Sep 18th, 2019 - dementia - aged 85