Terrence Frederick "Terry" (T. F.) Rigelhof (born April 24, 1944)[1] is a Canadian writer and academic.
[2] He is best known for A Blue Boy in a Black Dress, his memoir of his time studying at a Roman Catholic seminary school prior to abandoning the priesthood;[3] the book was a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction at the 1996 Governor General's Awards,[4] and won the Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction at the Quebec Writers' Federation Awards.
[3] He left those studies after a crisis of faith which left him suicidal,[3] but retained an academic interest in the history and sociology of religion, becoming a longtime instructor at Montreal's Dawson College.
Pass (1983) and the short story collection Je t'aime, Cowboy (1993) prior to writing A Blue Boy in a Black Dress; he published one further novel, Badass on a Softail, in 1997 before concentrating on non-fiction writing thereafter.
[7] In addition to his books, he was a regular literary critic for The Globe and Mail and other publications.