Trevor Ferguson was born in Huron County, Ontario, in 1947 and raised in Montreal from the age of three. When he decided to start writing, he drove a taxi by night and wrote by day, until the publication of his first novel in 1977, High Water Chants. Trevor's second novel, Onyx John, published in 1985 by McClelland & Stewart, received rave reviews across the country. The same reaction occurred with his third, The Kinkajou, in 1989. In the spring of 1993, Trevor's fourth novel, The True Life Adventures of Sparrow Drinkwater, was published by Harper Collins. Trevor is past-Chairman of the Writers' Union of Canada, and he has been the Writer-in-Residence at the University of Alberta, in… Edmonton, and Red River Community College in Winnipeg. He has published two novels, City of Ice and Ice Lake, under the name of John Farrow.