Donald Lamont Jack was born on December 6, 1924, and died on June 2, 2003. He was an English and Canadian novelist and playwright.
Life
Jack was born in Radcliffe, Bury, England. He grew up in Britain and attended Bury Grammar School and Marr College. Later, he served in the RAF during World War II from 1943 to 1947.
After the war, he moved to Canada in 1951 and became a Canadian citizen in 1964. From 1955 to 1957, he wrote scripts for Crawley Films. After 1957, he worked as a full-time freelance writer.
He wrote for the stage, radio, and television shows like General Motors Theatre, The Unforeseen, Playdate, Hatch's Mill, The Forest Rangers, and On Camera. However, he is best known for his novels, the Bandy Papers, which tell the funny stories of Bartholomew Bandy, a World War I fighter pilot. His play The Canvas Barricade was the first Canadian play shown at the Stratford Festival of Canada. Other plays he wrote include Exit Muttering, Crash, and Minuet for Brass Band. He had 39 TV plays produced, 22 radio plays, and many documentaries. Most of Jack's books are being reprinted or published for the first time by Sybertooth.
Jack died from a stroke at his home in Warwickshire, England in June 2003.