Born and raised in Nebraska and Wyoming. Mother read books, father knocked people down and trained horses. Scholarship athlete in track, University of Nebraska. Editor of the Daily Nebraskan. Reporter for the Akron Beacon-Journal, Detroit Free Press, Miami Herald. Opponent of the Vietnam War. Went to Canada, 1970. Reporter for the Vancouver Sun. Worked as a hotel clerk, CBC editor, journalist, columnist and novelist. Father of three sons. Reader and skeptic.