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Books & Contributions to Books

Books by Robert Fulford

A Life in Paragraphs: Essays (Optimum Publishing International, 2020)
The Triumph of Narrative: Storytelling in the Age of Mass Culture (Anansi, 1999); French edition: L'instinct du récit, translated by Albert Beaudry (Bellarmin, 2001)
Toronto Discovered (Key Porter Books, 1998)
Accidental City: The Transformation of Toronto (Macfarlane Walter & Ross, 1995)
Best Seat in the House: Memoirs of a Lucky Man (Collins, 1988)
Canada: A Celebration. Text by Robert Fulford; photos by John de Visser. (Key Porter Books, 1983)
Co-author (with Joan Murray) of The Beginning of Vision: The Drawings of Lawren S. Harris (Douglas & McIntyre in association with the Mira Godard Editions, 1982)
The Fulford File (New Leaf Publications, 1978) [64-page collection of excerpts from Robert Fulford's "Notebook" column in Saturday Night]
An Introduction to the Arts in Canada (Copp Clark, 1977)
Marshall Delaney at the Movies: The Contemporary World As Seen On Film (Peter Martin Associates in association with Take One magazine, 1974)
Co-editor (with Dave Godfrey and Abraham Rotstein) of Read Canadian: A Book about Canadian Books (James Lewis & Samuel, 1972)
Text and introduction for Harold Town Drawings (McClelland and Stewart, 1968)
Crisis at the Victory Burlesk: Culture, Politics & Other Diversions (Oxford University Press, 1968)
Remember Expo: A Pictorial Record. Written by Robert Fulford; photographed by John de Visser, Harold Whyte and Peter Varley (McClelland and Stewart, 1968)
This Was Expo. Written by Robert Fulford; photographed by John de Visser, Harold Whyte and Peter Varley (McClelland and Stewart, 1968); French edition: Portrait de l'Expo, translated by Massue Belleau (McClelland and Stewart, 1968)
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Contributions to Books

1960s

Introduction to The First Five Years: A Selection from the Tamarack Review, edited by Robert Weaver. Oxford University Press, 1962.
"The Press in the Community." In The Press and the Public: 8th Winter Conference, Canadian Institute on Public Affairs, edited by D.L.B. Hamlin. University of Toronto Press for Canadian Institute on Public Affairs, 1962.
Introduction to Masterpiece: A Play in Two Acts, by Larry Ward and Gordon Russell. Book Society of Canada, 1964.
"The Built-In Bias of the News." In Reporting the News: Selections from Nieman Reports, edited by Louis M. Lyons. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1965. [Originally published as "The Press in the Community" in The Press and the Public: 8th Winter Conference, Canadian Institute on Public Affairs, 1962.]
"On Raymond Souster." In The Making of Modern Poetry in Canada: Essential Articles on Contemporary Canadian Poetry in English, edited by Louis Dudek and Michael Gnarowski. Ryerson Press, 1967.
"Radio-TV: Mirror of the Nation." In Century, 1867-1967: The Canadian Saga, edited by John D. Harbron. Southam Press, 1967. (Published as a supplement to 20 newspapers.)
"Visual Arts." In To Every Thing There Is a Season: Roloff Beny in Canada, edited by Milton Wilson. Longmans, 1967.

1970s

"Expo and the Art of the Environment: A Hope for the Future." In Canada: A Guide to the Peaceable Kingdom, edited by William Kilbourn. MacMillan of Canada, 1970.
Essay in Michael Snow: A Survey [exhibition catalogue]. Art Gallery of Ontario, 1970.
Essay in Albert Jacques Franck [exhibition catalogue]. Gallery Moos, 1970.
"Galbraith in Dutton." In Canadian Writing Today, edited by Mordecai Richler. Penguin, 1970.
"The Future of Death"." In Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future, edited for The Canadian Forum by Stephen Clarkson. M.G. Hurtig, 1970.
"Crisis at the Victory Burlesk." In The Underside of Toronto, edited by W.E. Mann. McClelland and Stewart, 1970.
Introduction to A Saturday Night Scrapbook, edited by Morris Wolfe. New Press, 1973.
"The Authentic Voice of Canada." In The Search for identity, edited by James Foley. Macmillan of Canada, 1976.
"The Good Wife." In Toronto Short Stories, edited by Morris Wolfe and Douglas Daymond. Doubleday, 1977.
"The Images of Atwood." In Margaret Atwood: A Symposium, edited by Linda Sandler. University of Victoria, 1977.
Essay in Arthur Handy Retrospective [exhibition catalogue]. London Art Gallery, 1977.
Introduction to The Cultural Connection: An Essay on Culture and Government Policy in Canada, by Bernard Ostry. McClelland and Stewart, 1978.
Introduction to The Great Comic Book Heroes and Other Essays, by Mordecai Richler; selected and introduced by Robert Fulford. McClelland and Stewart, 1978.
Introduction to Poets and Other People: Drawings [exhibition catalogue], by Harold Town. Art Gallery of Windsor, 1979.

1980s

"'A Sort of Reckless Courage.'" In The Journalists. Royal Commission on Newspapers, 1981.
"Reflections on Primitive Art." In Writing Prose: Techniques and Purposes, Canadian ed., edited by Thomas S. Kane et al. Oxford University Press, 1981.
Foreword to Canada, a Landscape Portrait, edited by J.A. Kraulis. Hurtig, 1982.
Introduction to City Light: A Portrait of Toronto, by John De Visser. Oxford University Press, 1983.
"Growing Up Gould"." In Glenn Gould by Himself and His Friends, edited by John McGreevy. Doubleday, 1983.
Foreword to The Riot at Christie Pits, by Cyril H. Levitt and William Shaffir. Lester & Orphen Dennys, 1987.
"Why Ottawa Is Afraid of Art [Government]." In Documents in Canadian Art, edited by Douglas Fetherling. Broadview Press, 1987.
"Their America, and Mine." In Our American Cousins: The United States Through Canadian Eyes, edited by Thomas S. Axworthy. Lorimer, 1987.
Essay in Unofficial Portraits: Canadian Politicians Photographed by Themselves [exhibition catalogue], by Andrew Danson. Doubleday Canada and the Art Gallery of York University, 1987.
Essay in Christopher Pratt: Recent Paintings [exhibition catalogue]. Mira Godard Gallery, 1988.
"The Grand Old Man of Can Lit" [broadcast on TV Ontario's "Realities," February 8, 1988]. In Conversations with Robertson Davies, edited by J. Madison Davis. University Press of Mississippi, 1989.

1990s

Essay in Mashel Teitelbaum: A Retrospective [exhibition catalogue]. Art Gallery of Hamilton, 1992.

"A Post-Modern Dominion: The Changing Nature of Canadian Citizenship." In Belonging: The Meaning and Future of Canadian Citizenship, edited by William Kaplan. McGill-Queen's University Press, 1993.

Foreword to David Irving's Hitler: A Faulty History Dissected, Two Essays, by Eberhard Jäckel; translation and comments by H. David Kirk. Ben-Simon Publications, 1993.

Introduction to Hidden Values: Contemporary Canadian Art in Corporate Collections, by Robert Swain. Douglas & McIntyre, 1994.

Introduction to Great Scott!: The Best of Jay Scott's Movie Reviews, edited by Karen York. McClelland & Stewart, 1994.

Introduction and essay in Magnificent Decade: Harold Town: 1955-1965: Paintings, Collages, Drawings, Prints, and Memorabilia. [exhibition catalogue]. Henry Moore Gallery, 1997.
"Abattoir for Sacred Cows: Three Decades in the Life of a Classic" In Ideas That Matter: The Worlds of Jane Jacobs, edited by Max Allen. Ginger Press, 1997.
"Tensions in Canadian Journalism." In Journalism in the New Millennium: Essays in Celebration of the Sing Tao School of Journalism, edited by Donna Logan; illustrations by John Q. Liang. Sing Tao School of Journalism, 1998.
"The Mystery of the Bathurst Street Elvis." In Pop Can: Popular Culture in Canada, edited by Lynne Van Luven and Priscilla L. Walton. Prentice Hall Allyn and Bacon Canada, 1999.
"Tommy Douglas, Mary Pickford, Glenn Gould, Anne of Green Gables and Captain Kirk: Canadians in the World's Imagination." In True North: Canadian Essays for Composition, edited by Janice MacDonald. Addison-Wesley, 1999.

2000s

"Lester B. Pearson's Puzzling Personality, April 6, 1963." In Maclean's People: A Gallery of Canadian Greats, edited by Michael Benedict. Viking, 2001.
Foreword to Maclean's People: A Gallery of Canadian Greats, edited by Michael Benedict. Viking, 2001.
"All Hail Mau the Magnificent." In Looking Closer: 4, Critical Writings on Graphic Design, edited by Michael Bierut, William Drenttel, and Steven Heller. Allworth Press, 2002.
"Gzowski on Paper"." In Remembering Peter Gzowski: A Book of Tributes, edited by Edna Barker. McClelland & Stewart, 2002.
Essay in Geoffrey James: Past, Present, Future. [exhibition catalogue], University of Toronto Art Centre, 2003.
"How the World Has Changed," by Ursula Franklin, Robert Fulford, and Janice Stein, moderated by Paul Kennedy [broadcast on CBC Radio's "Ideas," September 13, 2001]. In Ideas: Brilliant Thinkers Speak Their Minds, edited by Bernie Lucht. Goose Lane, 2005.
Introduction to Uptown Downtown, by Raymond Souster. Battered Silicon Dispatch Box, 2006.
"The Trouble with Emily." In Beyond Wilderness: The Group of Seven, Canadian Identity and Contemporary Art, edited by John O'Brian and Peter White. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007.
"Bred in the Bone." In American Myths: What Canadians Think They Know about the United States, edited by Rudyard Griffiths. Key Porter Books, 2008.
"Wood, Light and Dreams: A Museum in Frank Gehry's Neighbourhood." In Frank Gehry in Toronto: Transforming the Art Gallery of Ontario. Art Gallery of Ontario, 2009.

2010s

Essay in Colville Tributes: Schmied, Schultz, Welch and Fulford, edited by Andrew Steeves. Gaspereau Press, 2011.
Introduction to Buildings, Cities, Life: An Autobiography in Architecture, by Eberhard H. Zeidler. Dundurn, 2013.
"How Twitter Saved the Octothorpe." In Culture: A Reader for Writers, edited by John Mauk. Oxford University Press, 2014.
"An Actress Who Survived the Disaster Began the Legend That Is Titanic." In The Titanic, edited by Daniel Gaetán-Beltrán. Greenhaven Press, 2015.

Photo by Keith Beaty, 1987, courtesy of Toronto Star Archives
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