Rick Salutin
Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, Canadian Studies Program; Contributing Columnist, The Toronto Star
Rick Salutin is a Canadian novelist, playwright, journalist, and critic and has been writing for more than forty years. Until 1 October 2010, he wrote a regular column in the Globe and Mail; on 11 February 2011, he began a weekly column in the Toronto Star. He currently teaches a half course on Canadian media and culture in University College. He was once a trade union organizer in Toronto and participated in the Artistic Woodwork strike.
Education
- MA, Columbia University
- BA, Brandeis University
Publications
- Kent Rowley: A Canadian Union Life - 1980
- Marginal Notes: Challenges to the Mainstream - 1984
- Good Buy Canada! - 1975 (with Murray Soupcoff and Gary Dunford)
- A Man of Little Faith - 1988 (winner of the 1989 Books in Canada First Novel Award)
- Waiting for Democracy - 1989
- Living in a Dark Age - 1991
- The Age of Improv - 1995
- The Womanizer - 2002