This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous. Find sources: "Ray Robertson" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (February 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Ray Robertson
Ray Robertson at the 2013 Texas Book Festival.
Born	Chatham, Ontario, Canada
Occupation	Novelist, essayist
Nationality	Canadian
Website
www.rayrobertson.com

Ray Robertson is the author of nine novels, five collections of non-fiction, and a book of poetry. His work has been translated into several languages.  He contributed the liner notes to two Grateful Dead archival releases: Dave’s Picks #45 and the Here Comes Sunshine 1973 box set.  Born and raised in Chatham, Ontario, he lives Toronto.

Bibliography

Novels

• Home Movies. Cormorant Books, 1997
• Heroes. Dundurn, 2000
• Moody Food. Doubleday, 2002
• Gently Down the Stream. Cormorant Books, 2005
• What Happened Later. Thomas Allen Publishers, 2007
• David. Thomas Allen Publishers, 2009
• I Was There the Night He Died. Biblioasis, 2014
• 1979. Biblioasis, 2018
• Estates Large and Small. Biblioasis, 2022

Non-fiction

• Mental Hygiene: Essays on Writers and Writing. Insomniac Press, 2003
• Why Not? Fifteen Reasons to Live. Biblioasis, 2011
• Lives of the Poets (with Guitars). Biblioasis, 2016
• How to Die: A Book About Being Alive. Biblioasis, 2020
• All the Years Combine: The Grateful Dead in Fifty Shows. Biblioasis. 2023 (forthcoming)

Poetry

• The Old Man in the Mirror Isn't Me: Last Call Haiku. Exile, 2020

External links

• Author's website
• Publisher's website: https://www.biblioasis.com/brand/robertson-ray/