Kilian, Crawford, 1941-....

Crawford Kilian was born in New York City (NYC) in 1941 and grew up in Los Angeles and Mexico City. He graduated from NYC's Columbia University in 1962, served in the US Army for a period and worked as a technical writer at the Berkeley University Laboratories. Upon his marriage, he and his wife Alice moved to Vancouver for the remainder of their lives, with the exception of 1983 when they lived in the Guangzhou province of China teaching English. Crawford became a Canadian citizen in May of 1973. Since 1967, Kilian has taught in BC community colleges, published 20 books, and hundreds of articles and newspaper columns. His books include eleven novels, two textbooks on writing, a regional history, two books on education and politics, two manuals on writing, and two children's books. For the past ten years, Kilian's most prominent work in education has related to computers, especially distance learning and the internet. He has developed courses in Webwriting and his latest book is "Writing for the Web". He has also written a monthly column, "The Online Writer", for a Web magazine called Content Spotlight. Crawford Kilian lives in North Vancouver, teaches at Capilano College, and has plans for eight more books.