John Robert Colombo Quotes

John Robert Colombo was born in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. He is a Canadian anthologist, editor and poet. He has published over 200 titles, including major anthologies and reference works. He studied at the University of Toronto. He began writing and publishing poetry in the early 1960s; his first book of poetry Lines for the Last Day was illustrated by William Kurelek. He served as managing editor of the Tamarack Review, at the time the leading literary quarterly. In the early 1970s, he began working on the first of many anthologies, a collection of quotations from prominent Canadians titled Colombo's Canadian Quotations.