| William Weintraub is a free-lance writer, born and educated in Montreal. He was on the staff of the National Film Board for many years and was involved in the making of some 150 documentary and dramatic films, as writer, producer and/or director. His first venture as a playwright was an adaptation of his novel, The Underdogs, which played to capacity audiences in Montreal in the summer of 1998.
Selected Publications:
City Unique: Montreal Days and Nights in the 1940s and '50s. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1996.
The Underdogs. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1979.
Why Rock the Boat? Boston and Toronto: Little Brown, 1961.
Awards:
First Prize for non-fiction, QSPELL (Quebec Society for the Promotion of English-language Literature) Awards, 1997. |
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