{{short description|Canadian author (born 1967)}} {{BLP sources|date=July 2015}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2013}}
'''Arthur Gregory Slade''' (born July 9, 1967 in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian author. A resident of Saskatoon, he was raised on a ranch in the Cypress Hills and began writing in high school. He attended the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon and received an English Honours degree in 1989. His first short story was published that same year. He then worked as a night auditor at a hotel for several months and as a copywriter for a radio station in Saskatoon for several years.
Slade became a full-time writer after the publication of his first novel for middle years, ''Draugr'', followed by others such as ''Dust'' and ''Tribes''. His novel ''Dust'' received the Governor General's Award for Children's Literature in 2001, and ''The Hunchback Assignments'' won the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award in 2010.<ref name=cbc>[https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/sask-man-writers-win-for-children-s-books-1.953779 "Sask., Man. writers win for children's books"]. cbc.ca, November 11, 2010.</ref>
==List of published works==
===The Northern Frights series=== *''Draugr'' (1997) *''The Haunting of Drang Island'' (1998) *''The Loki Wolf'' (2000)
===The Canadian Chills series=== *''Return of the Grudstone Ghosts'' (2002) *''Ghost Hotel'' (2004) *''Invasion of the IQ Snatchers'' (2007)
===The Hunchback Assignments series=== *''The Hunchback Assignments'' (2009) *''The Dark Deeps'' (2010) *''Empire of Ruins'' (2011) *''Island of Doom'' (July 2012)
===Biographies=== *''John Diefenbaker: an Appointment with Destiny'' (2000)
===Stand-alone books=== *''Dust'' (2001) *''Tribes'' (2002) *''Monsterology'' (2005) *''Megiddo's Shadow'' (2006) *''Jolted'' (2008)
===Comics=== *''Hallowed Knight'' (1997) issues #1–3.
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[http://www.arthurslade.com/ Arthur Slade's website] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20070930020624/http://www.harpercollins.ca/global_scripts/product_catalog/author_xml.asp?authorid=CA186 HarperCollins Canada site] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20060917094100/http://www.harpercollins.ca/trailers/trailer0006395686.html Video trailer] for ''Meggido's Shadow'' *{{ISFDB name|id=Arthur_Slade|name=Arthur Slade}} *[http://www.bookreviewsandmore.ca/2010/09/arthur-slade-cover-art.html Visual Bibliography at BookReviewsAndMore.ca] *[http://www.bookreviewsandmore.ca/2010/10/arthur-slade-author-profile.html Arthur Slade interview at BookReviewsAndMore.ca] {{Portal|Children and Young Adult Literature}}
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