Andreas Schroeder

Works by Andreas Schroeder:

• Mennonites an Illustrated History of Their Lives in Canada
• Cheats, Charlatans, and Chicanery: More Outrageous Tales of Skulduggery
• Scams, Scandals, and Skulduggery: A Selection of the World's Most Outrageous Frauds
• Renovating Heaven
• Stories from Pacific and Arctic Canada
• Dustship Glory
• Fakes, Frauds, and Flimflammery: Even More of the World's Most Outrageous Scams
• Shaking it Rough: A Prison Memoir
• Carved from Wood
• Robbers!: True Stories of the World's Most Notorious Thieves
• Thieves!
• Duped!: True Stories of the World's Best Swindlers (It Actually Happened)
• The Late Man
• Toccata in 'd'
• The Ozone Minotaur

From ABC BookWorld, "Long before Andreas Schroeder led Canada to adopt Public Lending Right and helped found both the League of Canadian Poets and the Writers Union of Canada, the prolific UBC Creative Writing professor was an avant-garde, ex-Mennonite motorcyclist and surrealist who lived in a four-storey, ramshackle, communal house, just east of Oak St. "Since the landlord didn't mind," he says, "we painted all the doors black and all the window frames purple. Everyone called it, not terribly imaginatively, The Purple Palace." Notables who lived there, or were regular found-ins, included J. Michael Yates, Charles "Red" Lillard, John Skapski, Scott Symons, George Payerle, John Newlove, Eric Forrer, Susan Musgrave, George McWhirter, George Amabile, Fred Cawsey, Stanley Cooperman, Hannah Main-van der Camp and Rick Ward. "Typewriters clacked and tickered and dinged away twenty-fours a day," says Schroeder. The living room was wallpapered with 300 leftover posters for Schroeder's literary magazine Contemporary Literature in Translation. At least a dozen books were written in that house between 1970 and the early 80's."

He was a presenter at the Festival of the Written Arts in 1992, 1999, 2009, and 2019.