Persky, Stan

PERSKY, Stan, writer, teacher (b 19 Jan 1941, Chicago; d 15 Oct 2024, Berlin). After serving in the US navy and working on the San Francisco waterfront, he came to VANCOUVER in 1966. He studied at UBC, where he was an outspoken student radical. At this time he co-founded the GEORGIA STRAIGHT Writing Supplement, which evolved into NEW STAR BOOKS. Beginning in 1979 with Son of Socred, he wrote a series of books chronicling the activities of provincial and civic governments from a leftist...

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