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John Gallishaw
b. 1890
A Newfoundland-born writer and teacher, he drew on his First World War service to produce one of the early firsthand books about Gallipoli. His later career also included teaching and writing about fiction craft.
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About the author
Born in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Alonzo John Gallishaw was a Canadian author and teacher. Sources consulted identify him as being born around 1890 or 1891 and note that he studied at Harvard before the First World War interrupted his education.
When war broke out, he returned home and served in uniform, experiences that shaped his best-known work, Trenching at Gallipoli. That book is remembered for its direct personal account of the Dardanelles campaign and for the way it brings an individual soldier’s experience to life.
Gallishaw later built a career in writing and teaching. In addition to fiction, he wrote about the craft of storytelling, including Twenty Problems of the Fiction Writer, reflecting his lasting interest in how stories are made as well as told.