List of People From Edmonton - Writers and Artists

Writers and Artists

• Will Beauchamp, filmmaker
• Ted Bishop, author of Riding with Rilke
• Gil Cardinal, filmmaker
• Patrick Cox, famous shoe designer
• Brion Gysin, artist and writer
• Peter Hide, British-born sculptor, living in Edmonton since 1977
• Arthur Hiller, Hollywood film director and former president of the Director's Guild of America
• Carl Honoré grew up in Edmonton, journalist and author of In Praise of Slowness
• Mel Hurtig, publisher, author, and politician.
• Zillur Rahman John, Bangladeshi Canadian, internationally renowned mime and pantomime artist, director, teacher, researcher and author of several mime and pantomime books
• W. P. Kinsella, author of Shoeless Joe which became the film Field of Dreams and tournament Scrabble player
• Myrna Kostash, writer of eight books including "All of Baba's Children"
• Stewart Lemoine, playwright
• Marshall McLuhan, recipient of numerous awards and appointments, pioneer of media theory
• Richard Newman, writer, broadcaster, and reality TV star, best known for participating in the seventh series of the British version of Big Brother
• T. W. Peacocke, television and film director
• Robert Young Pelton, author