Mark Morton
Mark Morton is the author of The End: Closing Words for a Millennium (winner of the Alexander Isbister Award for nonfiction); The Lover's Tongue: A Merry Romp Through the Language of Love and Sex (republished in the UK as Dirty Words ), and Cooking with Shakespeare . He's also the author of more than 50 columns for Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture (University of California Press) and has written and broadcast more than a hundred columns about language and culture for CBC Radio....See more
Mark Morton is the author of The End: Closing Words for a Millennium (winner of the Alexander Isbister Award for nonfiction); The Lover's Tongue: A Merry Romp Through the Language of Love and Sex (republished in the UK as Dirty Words ), and Cooking with Shakespeare . He's also the author of more than 50 columns for Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture (University of California Press) and has written and broadcast more than a hundred columns about language and culture for CBC Radio. His young adult science fiction novel The Headmasters came out from Shadowpaw Press in early 2024. Mark has a PhD in sixteenth-century literature from the University of Toronto and has taught at several universities in France and Canada. He currently works at the University of Waterloo. He and his wife, Melanie Cameron, (also an author) have four children, three dogs, one rabbit, and no time. See less
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