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Bruce Obee

The Pacific coastal environment in Bruce Obee's latest novel, Scuttlejack: A Damon Quinn Mystery, has been the setting for most of his work during the past four decades. A writer of books, magazine articles, and television scripts, his work is published by National Geographic, Canadian Geographic, Travel & Leisure, British Columbia Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, and others.

Author of more than a dozen books, Bruce Obee has half a million books in print. His work is often used for high-school and university writing courses, and appears in anthologies with Farley Mowat, Margaret Atwood, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Garrison Keillor, Roald Dahl, and other noted authors.

Obee has won several international magazine awards as well as Canada’s prestigious Leo Award for screenwriting. He is a recipient of the Governor-General’s Commemorative Medal for “significant contribution to compatriots, community and to Canada.”


“You’re a loner in body, mind, and soul. A writer who spends a day of solitude in the office is plagued by a mind that travels with the body. The work never stops.”
Bruce Obee
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