Glen Downey

Quick Facts

Full Name	Glen Downey
Occupation	Writer
Date Of Birth	Oct 15, 1969(1969-10-15)
Age	55
Birthplace	Hamilton
Country	Canada
Birth City	Ontario
Horoscope	Capricorn

Glen Downey Biography

Glen Downey is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on October 15, 1969 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Glen Downey (born October 15, 1969) is a Canadian children’s author, teacher, and academic from Oakville, Ontario. His publications include more than ninety books for young people across a variety of genres that focus specifically on the development of child and adolescent literacy and numeracy. Downey is best known as the series editor of Graphic Poetry, winner of both the 2010 “Texty” Award from the Text and Academic Authors Association, and the 2011 Teachers’ Choice Award for Children’s Books from Learning magazine. Downey came up with the concept for Graphic Poetry as a way of making poetry engaging for 21st century readers. Several of Downey’s books are for award-winning educational series developed by Rubicon Publishing. These include Boldprint, The 10, Boldprint Graphic Readers, and Boldprint Graphic Novels.

Downey’s interest in writing for children and young adults was motivated by his own formative reading experiences. He was introduced to Rubicon by David Boyd while the two were colleagues at Appleby College. Downey’s first book for Rubicon was Games for the award-winning Boldprint series. His most prolific year to date was 2009, with 47 books published across three different series. Recent work includes the Rubicon/Oxford series, Interface, a combination of texts and online platforms designed to “help students build the skills of critical inquiry.”

Glen Downey Net Worth

Glen Downey is one of the richest Writer from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Glen Downey 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Downey’s interest in games eventually served to direct the course of his education. He received his B.A. from McMaster University in 1991, and his M.A. a year later, writing his Masters’ Thesis on the chess problem in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass. He earned a Ph.D. in English from the University of Victoria in 1998, expanding on his previous graduate work in examining the development of the chess motif in the Victorian novel.

After teaching at both the University of Victoria and the University of British Columbia, where he won the Ian Fairclough Prize for Teaching in 2000, Downey left to pursue a B.Ed. in English and Mathematics Education at the University of Western Ontario’s Althouse College. While in the program, he submitted the manuscript for his first book, The Fifty Fatal Flaws of Essay Writing, which Althouse published in 2002. Since then, he has held a variety of teaching and administrative positions at public and private institutions, and has taught courses in Children’s Literature and Twenty-First Century Literacies in the graduate education program at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.

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Glen Ranked on the list of most popular Writer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Canada. Glen Downey celebrates birthday on October 15 of every year.