Ray Robertson is a Canadian novelist and contributing book reviewer at The Globe and Mail who lives in Toronto, Ontario. His work, "Why Not? Fifteen Reasons to Live," was short-listed for the Hilary Weston Prize for non-fiction and long-listed for the Charles Taylor Prize for non-fiction. "I Was There the Night He Died" was published in May 2014. In 2016, he published the non-fiction "Lives of the Poets (with Guitars)." In 2022, he published his newest novel, "Estates Large and Small". His poetry collection The Old Man in the Mirror Isn't Me was shortlisted for the ReLit Award for poetry in 2021. Bibliography Novels Home Movies. Cormorant Books, 1997. Heroes. Dundurn, 2000. Moody Food. Doubleday, 2002. Santa Fe Writers Project, 2006. Biblioasis, 2009. VLB, 2010. Gently Down the Stream. Cormorant Books, 2005. What Happened Later. Thomas Allen Publishers, 2007. David. Thomas Allen Publishers, 2009. I Was There the Night He Died. Biblioasis, 2014. 1979. Biblioasis, 2018. Estates Large and Small. Biblioasis, 2022. Non-fiction Mental Hygiene: Essays on Writers and Writing. Insomniac Press, 2003. Why Not? Fifteen Reasons to Live. Biblioasis, 2011. Lives of the Poets (with Guitars). Biblioasis, 2016. References External links Author's website Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Canadian male novelists People from Chatham-Kent Canadian male essayists 20th-century Canadian essayists 20th-century Canadian novelists 20th-century Canadian male writers 21st-century Canadian essayists 21st-century Canadian novelists 21st-century Canadian male writers