Graeme Gibson was born in London, Ontario, in 1934.
Graeme Gibson died in September 2019..
In 1990, he won a Toronto Arts Award for writing and publishing, and, in 1992 he received the Order of Canada.
From 1987 to 1989, he was president of the Canadian Centre of International PEN.
He was also an organizer and founding member of the Writers\' Trust, a non-profit organization, and was subsequently its chairman.
An important spokesman for Canadian cultural identity, Gibson was the initial organizer and a founding member of the Writers\' Union of Canada, and was its chairman in 1976.
He was the author of three novels, Five Legs (1969), Communion (1971) and Perpetual Motion (1982), and of two Bedside companions, The Bedside Book of Birds (2005) and The Bedside Book of Beasts (2009).
Graeme Gibson was born in London, Ontario, in 1934