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Gerald Lynch

Gerald Lynch was born in Monaghan, Ireland and emigrated to Canada as a young boy. He has published two collections of short stories, as well as a critical study of Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock. He teaches in the Department of English at the University of Ottawa and lives in Gloucester, Ontario, with his wife and three children.

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