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James Gregor (writer)

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James Gregor is a Canadian writer from Halifax, Nova Scotia,[1] whose debut novel Going Dutch was a shortlisted finalist for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award in 2020.[2] The novel, about a gay graduate student in New York City who becomes drawn into an emotionally complex quasi-relationship with a female fellow student despite their sexual incompatibility,[3] was published in 2019, and based partially on his own experiences while studying creative writing at Columbia University in the early 2010s.[1]

In addition to the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, Going Dutch was a finalist for the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award at the 2020 Atlantic Book Awards & Festival.[4]

Gregor is the grandson of Hugh Francis Pullen, a Canadian military officer and historian whose books included The Shannon and the Chesapeake and The Sea Road to Halifax: Being an Account of the Lights and Buoys of Halifax Harbour.[5]

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