Bruce Crown

Bruce Crown grew up along the Corso Italia neighbourhood in Toronto, the famous St. Clair and Bathurst intersection where Italian and Portuguese cultures thrive. An alumnus of North Toronto Collegiate Institute, where he found a piqued interest in Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451, and Nineteen-Eighty-Four; he began writing and volunteering at the school library to be near the smell of cedar bookshelves and paper.

While attaining his HBA from the University of Toronto in Philosophy, he wrote some rather terrible theatre-plays and scripts.

After travelling to Europe and the United States, he began writing his first novel. His debut book: the noiresque Chronic Passions, published at twenty-three, was an international hit; Bruce continued writing literary fiction as he travelled across Europe, completing his second book: Forlorn Passions, while residing in Florence.

He attained his M.Phil. from the University of Copenhagen while writing his third novel: How Dim the Promised Land, another best seller.

The Romantic and The Vile, his most recent work, is set in Copenhagen and Monaco. He resides in Toronto and Copenhagen.