Douglas Maurice Gibson

Stories about Storytellers: Publishing Alice Munro, Robertson Davies, Alistair MacLeod, Pierre Trudeau, and Others

I’ll kill him!” said Mavis Gallant. Pierre Trudeau almost did, leading him (Run!”) into a whizzing stream of traffic that almost crushed both of them. Alistair MacLeod accused him of a home invasion” to grab the manuscript of No Great Mischief. And Paul Martin denounced him to a laughing Ottawa crow...

Stories About Storytellers: Publishing W. O. Mitchell, Mavis Gallant, Robertson Davies, Alice Munro, Pierre Trudeau, Hugh MacLennan, Barry Broadfoot, ... Callaghan, Alistair MacLeod, and Many More

Douglas Gibson, arguably the editor behind Canada’s greatest literary talents, is a terrific storyteller himself. Through his recollections we get an inside view of Canadian politics and publishing that rarely gets told, from Jack Hodgins’ Vancouver Island to Harold Horwood’s Labrador, from Alice Mu...

Stories About Storytellers: Publishing Alice Munro, Robertson Davies, Alistair MacLeod, Pierre Trudeau, and Others

Spotlighting an extraordinary career, this autobiography reviews the author’s accomplishments workingand playingalongside some of Canada’s greatest writers. These humorous chronicles relate the projects he brainstormed for writer Barry Broadfoot, how he convinced eventual Nobel Prize contender Alice...

The Scotiabank story: A history of the Bank of Nova Scotia, 1832-1982

Across Canada by Story: A Coast-to-Coast Literary Adventure

More adventures from one of Canada’s premier editors and storytellersCanada is a country rich in stories, and few take as much joy as Douglas Gibson in discovering them. As one of the country’s leading editors and publishers for 40 years, he coaxed modern classics out of some of Canada’s finest mind...

Pantheon Magazine | Poseidon October 2013

In the third installment: a beautiful woman washes up on the shores of a small community, a new form of birth control, a rip deep in the sea unleashes creatures on a civilization of survivors, and a kites appearance signals turbulent waters for the leader of a group of sea lions. All this and more i...

Tales of a Fifth-Grade Knight (Middle-Grade Novels)

One day, Isaac Thompson is just your average fifth grader playing the part of a porcupine in the school play. The next, he has strayed into a mysterious subterranean realm that has been lurking beneath his school Castle Elementary and launches his quest to knighthood. When Isaac's little sister Lily...

Helen Gibson Carves the Animals of the Nativity

A year ago Helen Gibson shared her techniques for carving the human figures of the nativity story: Mary, Joseph, Jesus, the wise men, and the shepherds. Now she returns to the story to complete the scene by carving the animals, of the nativity: camels, sheep, cattle, and donkeys. Helen has a highly ...

Hugh MacLennan's Best: A Selection of the Famous Author's Best Work, Published and Unpublished, Including Poetry, Essays, Journalism, Travel Writing, and Excerpts from All of His Novels

Douglas Gibs Books

Douglas Gibson Books is an editorial imprint in Canada that as of 2013 publishes five to ten books each year in "politics, history, biography, high adventure, and...