John Farrow
1904 – 1963
John Farrow is the pen name of Canadian novelist Trevor Ferguson. Ferguson lives in Hudson, Quebec, and was born November 11, 1947. He was written 11 novels and 4 plays, and also been named Canada’s best novelist by the Toronto Star and Books in Canada. He was born in Seaforth of Huron County, Ontario, but moved to Montreal at age 3, where he was raised. Ferguson worked on railway gangs in his teenage years and began writing at night in bunkhouses. In his twenties, he worked and traveled in Europe and the U.S. but eventually returned to Montreal to write, working as a night taxi driver. He published his first novel, High Water Chants, in 1977. His second novel Onyx John was published in 1985 to great acclaim. It was named one of the top five best twentieth-century novels by Leon Rooke, and became a best seller in France.