16 Facts About John Glassco

John Glassco was a Canadian poet, memoirist and novelist.

John Glassco wrote for the McGill Fortnightly Review with Scott, Smith, and Leon Edel.

At the age of 17, John Glassco left McGill without graduating to travel to Paris with his friend, Graeme Taylor.

The book is presented as a genuine memoir, although John Glassco had lightly fictionalized some aspects of the work.

In 1931 John Glassco contracted tuberculosis, which caused him to return home to Canada, where he was hospitalized.

John Glassco served as mayor of Foster from 1952 to 1954.

John Glassco died on January 29,1981, at the age of 71, in Montreal.

John Glassco went on to earn a strong reputation as a poet.

John Glassco's Selected Poems won Canada's top honour for poetry, the Governor General's Award, in 1971.

John Glassco edited the 1970 anthology The Poetry of French Canada in Translation, in which he personally translated texts by 37 different poets.

John Glassco translated the work of three French-Canadian novelists: Monique Bosco Jean-Yves Soucy, and Jean-Charles Harvey.

John Glassco edited the 1965 anthology English poetry in Quebec, which originated from a poetry conference held in Foster in 1963.

The poem was inspired by The Rodiad, falsely ascribed to George Colman the Younger, and John Glassco continued the hoax by claiming that his own poem was a republication of an 18th-century original by Colman.

John Glassco used the pseudonym "Sylvia Bayer" to publish Fetish Girl, on the theme of rubber fetishism.

John Glassco wrote The English Governess and Harriet Marwood, Governess under yet another pseudonym, "Miles Underwood".

John Glassco completed the unfinished pornographic novel Under the Hill by Aubrey Beardsley, in an edition published by the Olympia Press in 1959.