Mordecai Richler Was Here: Selected Writings - Hardcover

"It's the air of hustle and betrayal that gives Richler's fiction its nervous, horny hum." -- James Woolcott

Mordecai Richler was born in Montreal in 1931. One of Canada's greatest novelists, he was also a prolific and lively essayist, humorist, and critic. Among the many awards he received over his career were the Giller Prize, the Commonwealth Writer's Prize, and the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour. Richler received teh Order of Canada in 1999. He died in Montreal in July 2001.

Aislin (Terry Mosher), editorial cartoonist for the Montreal Gazette for more than thiry years, was a longtime friend of Richler's and shared the writer's affectionate attachment to their native city. He was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2003.

Adam Gopnik is an award-winning staff writer with The New Yorker and author of Paris to the Moon and Through the Children's Gate. As a young child in Montreal, he lived across the street from Mordecai Richler.

Author and editor Jonathan Webb has worked at McClelland & Stewart, the first Canadian publisher of Mordecai Richler's works. He is currently writing a book on the journalists who covered the Vietnam War.