BIOGRAPHY OF GRAY DOURMAN.
Gray Dourman is the pen and performing name of Graham Wallace
Who was born in a small hospital in Oliver about 200 clicks from a shacktown in the Cascade Mountains of British Columbia, Canada, called Midway where his Dad, Mum and the then two older brothers. Two more younger ones came later. They called it Midway because it was midway between nowhere and nothing.
By his teen years the family was in the suburbs around Vancouver but California was there and he could get there. As soon as he was old enough to buy a bus ticket, he was on his way south. A year later, he was driving a beat up old van for a rock band playing covers on the college circuit around San Francisco. Viet Nam and the draft forced Gray back to Canada and by 1968 he was farming on Spencer Hill, near Christina Lake and fronting a poetry, alternative music co-op,'Rich and Famous'. They were anything but.
He started a weekly column in the closest newspaper, The Grand Forks Gazette moved on to the Government of British Columbia and wrote for a small weekly called Monday Magazine. Throughout the 1970s he published articles for West Coast magazines and newspapers. The 1500 word new age travel story beaten out on an antique, portable typewriter was his bread and butter as he travelled widely in Latin America and South East Asia. In 1976 he published his first fiction, a short story in a ‘men’s’ magazine followed by more. In 1981 his debut novel, The Bhudda Stone, was published and he turned up in London, England. He just couldn’t bring himself to leave.
Over the next twenty five years, he developed a career in the City, writing about finance and banking, systems and technology. In 2004 he returned to writing lyrics and producing music. In 2006 he started writing fiction again and two novels, "A Case in Point" and "Woman of the Century" were published.
He can be contacted at gray@magichelix.com
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