Background
Gilmour was born in London, Ontario, and later moved to Toronto for schooling.
(Lost Between Houses is about a turbulent year in the life...)
Lost Between Houses is about a turbulent year in the life of Simon Albright, a fifteen-year-old private school boy struggling to be his sophisticated mother's best friend, the rebel his girlfriend adores and the son his father respects. Which is a hard act to pull off when your mother is distracted, your girlfriend too beautiful and your father in and out of a mental institution. Lost Between Houses unfolds with mingled sarcasm, grief and awe, and grips the reader until its startling climax.
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Bix has it all: a failed marriage, a faltering career as a speechwriter, a drinking problem (not to mention the pills) and a wayward eye for the women. The last thing he needs is trouble named Holly, which is, of course, exactly what he gets--briefly. His only assets are his daughter Zoey and an excruciating (and excruciatingly funny) sense of who he is, which becomes his path to redemption from the erotic rollercoaster that is this impressive and un-put-downable novel. David Gilmour's first novel, Back on Tuesday, garnered critical acclaim from such diverse critics as William Burroughs and Northroup Frye, and was published both in Canada and the United States. David works at the CBC where he is a film critic for "The Journal".
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Gilmour was born in London, Ontario, and later moved to Toronto for schooling.
University of Toronto. Upper Canada College.
He is a graduate of Upper Canada College and the University of Toronto. He became managing editor of the Toronto International Film Festival in 1980 and held the post for four years. In 1986, he joined Canadian Broadcasting Company Television as a film critic for The Journal, eventually becoming host of the program"s Friday night arts and entertainment magazine.
In 1990, he began hosting Gilmour on the Arts, an arts magazine series on Canadian Broadcasting Company Newsworld.
He left the Canadian Broadcasting Company in 1997 to concentrate on his writing. Gilmour is a Pelham Edgar Professor of Literary Studies at Victoria College at the University of Toronto (but is not a tenured professor with the Department of English)) since 2006.
In a September 2013 magazine interview with Emily M. Keeler for Hazlitt, Gilmour said he did not teach works written by women, gays or those of Chinese ethnicity Gilmour said: "What I teach is guys. Serious heterosexual guys".
He acknowledged that he does teach one short story by Virginia Woolf.
Gilmour faced a brief backlash from University of Toronto students and from the school"s acting chair of English. The Film Club, Thomas Allen Publishers (2007).
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Quotations: "What I teach is guys. Serious heterosexual guys".