Edward L. Bishop is a Canadian writer and academic. A professor of
English literature
English literature is literature written in the English language from United Kingdom, its crown dependencies, the Republic of Ireland, the United States, and the countries of the former British Empire. ''The Encyclopaedia Britannica'' defines E ...
and
film studies at the
University of Alberta
The University of Alberta, also known as U of A or UAlberta, is a public research university located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It was founded in 1908 by Alexander Cameron Rutherford,"A Gentleman of Strathcona – Alexander Cameron Rutherfor ...
, his first non-academic publication was ''Riding with Rilke: Reflections on Motorcycles and Books'',
a travel memoir which was a Canadian bestseller in 2005 and a finalist for the
2005 Governor General's Award for English non-fiction, and won the MAX Award (Motorcycle Award of Excellence) for best Motorcycle Book and Wilfred Eggleston Award for Non-Fiction.
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Canadian non-fiction writers
Living people
Academic staff of the University of Alberta
Motorcycle touring writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
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