J. Michael Yates, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Age, Net Worth, Biography

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Michael Yates (born April 10, 1938) is a Canadian poet, dramatist and fiction writer. Yates was born in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and did graduate degrees at the Universities of Missouri and Michigan and received an honorary doctorate from Ohio University.
He is a widely published author of poetry, fiction, drama, translations, and philosophical essays.
He has edited several anthologies and founded and edited several literary magazines.
His work has been translated into most of the western languages and several of the eastern ones and his drama for radio, television, and stage have been produced both nationally and internationally.
His last rank as a university professor was Distinguished Professor. He has won many literary prizes including the Major Hopwood Awards (both poetry and drama the same year) and the Lifetime Achievement Award in the Arts and Sciences from University of Missouri, The Look of Books (for Volvox: Poetry from the Unofficial Languages of Canada in English Translation), The Olympic Arts Award for Schedules of Silence. He has also been a logger, a powder monkey, a motorcycle racer, a broadcasting executive, a broadcaster, an advertising executive, a print salesman, a commercial photographer, a publisher.
He retired after seventeen years as a Maximum Security Prison Guard and SWAT team member.
Now, he and his wife teach languages, history of ideas, and science in their home in Vancouver.
Yates lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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