William Gilkerson was an American-Canadian writer, editor and artist.
11 Facts About William Gilkerson
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Between the 1960s to 2000s, Gilkerson wrote over ten books including Pirate's Passage, which won the 2006 Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature.
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Outside of literature, William Gilkerson was an editor at the St Louis Magazine in 1964 and held multiple jobs at the San Francisco Chronicle from 1964 to 1970.
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On 25 July 1936, William Gilkerson was born in Chicago, Illinois and primarily grew up in Midwestern United States.
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William Gilkerson began his writing career with the publication of William Gilkerson on War in 1964 and The Scrimshander in 1975.
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In between the publication of his first two books, William Gilkerson edited St Louis Magazine in 1964 and held multiple positions from 1964 to 1970 for the San Francisco Chronicle.
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William Gilkerson resumed his writing career in 1981 and published seven works between the 1980s to 1990s.
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Outside of literature, William Gilkerson was an artist who worked in Nova Scotia from 1987 to 2015.
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William Gilkerson received the 2006 Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature for Pirate's Passage.
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In 2010, William Gilkerson was nominated for the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award and Norma Fleck Award for A Thousand Years of Pirates.
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William Gilkerson died on 29 November 2015 in Martin's River, Nova Scotia.