Sir George Williams: Debut Novel

Living In Montreal Dept: The couple arrived in the fall of 1966, fresh from Iowa, where they had met and married while at the Writers Workshop there. Each had landed an English professorship in Montreal - she at McGill, he at Sir George Williams, later Concordia, where he would help found the school's Creative Writing program. He was already an established writer; she would soon score a big U.S. success with her debut novel, The Tiger's Daughter, according to Montreal Gazette. While the Quiet Revolution may have been in full swing, the progressive spirit hadn't penetrated quite everywhere, Mukherjee recalls. "That was the happiest 12 years." The warmth in Bharati Mukherjee's voice is palpable even over the phone from her home in San Francisco as she talks of the time she spent living in Montreal with writer husband Clark Blaise and their two sons. "It was a perfect city for a young family who were looking for adventure," she says. "It had the flavour of Europe and the amenities of North America. And it was contained, not chaotic and sprawling like New York or Los Angeles." As reported in the news.
@t clark blaise, bharati mukherjee