[1] A longtime editor with Saturday Night,[1] he became best known for two memoirs which he published in the 1990s about his childhood experiences during World War II.
[2] However, following the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies in 1942, the family was confined to detention camps for several years.
[4] The piece, titled "The Swimming Pool", appeared in the 1990 anthology The Saturday Night Traveller.
[6] A sequel, Small Mercies: A Boy After War, was published in 1997,[7] and won the inaugural Viacom Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction.
[9] A Memoir in Pieces, published in 2017, continued in the same vein as A Weekend Memoir, with profiles of Canadians prominent in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, such as Bob Homme (The Friendly Giant) and singer Alannah Myles, as well as accounts of his travels as a journalist and childhood in Indonesia.