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Roger Maybank (December 8, 1932) is a Canadian writer.

Biography
Roger Maybank was born in Winnipeg, the second child of Ralph Maybank and Dora Maybank. He received his primary education in public school and his high school education from Jesuit priests at St. Paul's College (Manitoba) in Winnipeg. After this he enrolled in what was then United College (now the University of Winnipeg), affiliated to the University of Manitoba, from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1953 having studied principally the Humanities. From the autumn of that year he read English Language and Literature at Oxford University, from which he graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1955. After some months spent in Paris, improving his French, he entered the Canadian Department of External Affairs as a junior officer; but he resigned from it four months later in order to pursue what became his life work: writing. This he was able to do by the generosity of his father, until his death in the mid-sixties, and then, for the rest of her long life, by his mother. The remittance sent Maybank monthly was not large, but it enabled him to feed and shelter himself and do his work. Returning to Europe, Maybank lived two or three years in Britain, before settling in Greece, on the island of Hydra. This became his home for the next thirty years, sharing a house with the Cypriot artist Marios Loizides, during which time he wrote the bulk of his seven novels. Towards the end of 1991, Maybank returned to Canada and made his home on the Pacific coast, where Elizabeth Gorrie (sister-in-law of John Gorrie (director) commissioned him to write a play about the Brontës for her Kaleidoscope Theatre. This was staged and well-received, and Maybank thereafter devoted himself to writing for the theatre, completing some dozen plays over the two following decades. Ten volumes of maybank's works were published in Victoria in 2005 . Mr. Maybank currently resides in Canada, but also spends much time in retreat in Thiruvannamalai, India.

Novels

 * THE WATER TOWER, 1963, Trafford Publishing, pp. 356, ISBN: 9781412067928
 * THE WHITE RAVEN, 1969, Trafford Publishing, pp. 280, ISBN: 9781412066938
 * THE ROAD OF SMOKE, 1972, Trafford Publishing, pp. 334, ISBN: 9781412070058
 * THE SUN BOAT, 1978, Trafford Publishing, pp. 326, ISBN: 9781412064521
 * MICHAEL LIGHTFOOT, 1983, Trafford Publishing, pp. 324, ISBN: 9781412070102
 * THE SWAN, 1988, Trafford Publishing, pp. 278, ISBN: 9781412071413
 * THE BACK OF THE WHALE, 1994, Trafford Publishing, pp. 250, ISBN: 9781412072281

Plays

 * THREE PLAYS: 'Sarras' (1995); 'River Crossing' (2001); 'The Lion's Mouth (2004), Trafford Publishing, pp. 210, ISBN: 9781412075015
 * THREE PLAYS: 'Grasslands'  (1998);  'Snakes and Ladders' (1999); 'Stonetag'  (2000), Trafford Publishing, pp. 390, ISBN: 9781412065542
 * TWO COMEDIES: 'Sundial with Crows' (1996);  'Seeds and Shadows' (2003), Trafford Publishing, pp. 230, ISBN: 9781412075008