Grescoe, Paul

Paul Grescoe was born in Winnipeg in 1939 where he began his career with Canadian Press, later working for The Brandon Sun, The Winnipeg Tribune and The Toronto Telegram before becoming a staff writer and editor with The Canadian Magazine and Maclean's. He has written books on business (including The money rustlers, 1985; Jimmy, the autobiography of Jim Pattison, 1988; The mavericks: lessons learned from the west's winning entrepreneurs, 1999; Flight path: how Westjet is flying high in Canada's most turbulent industry, 2004; and Secret riches: adventures of an unreformed oilman, 2004); publishing (The merchants of Venus; inside Harlequin and the empire of romance, 1996, and 101 uses for this book, 1996); travel (Vancouver; visions of a city, 1993) ; and crime fiction (Blood vessel, 1993, and Flesh wound which won the Crime writers of Canada prize for best first novel in 1991). Audrey Grescoe (née Patterson) was born in Hamilton in 1939. She began her writing and editing career as a reporter for The Hamilton Spectator and as a copy editor at The Globe and Mail. While raising two children in Vancouver between the late 1960s and early 1980s, she wrote as a freelancer for Weekend Magazine, The Canadian Magazine, The Financial Post Magazine, Homemaker?s, Chatelaine, Reader?s Digest, The Imperial Oil Review, CityWoman, Vancouver Magazine and Vancouver Calendar Magazine. She was an associate editor of Western Living Magazine from 1984-1986. Between 1987 and 1991 she researched and wrote two book-length documents for David Strangway, president of the University of British Columbia (The President?s report on the creative and performing arts and The President?s report on British Columbia?s Centre of Teaching and Research in the Health Sciences). She edited Wayne Gretzky: The authorized pictorial biography by Jim Taylor, 1994 and wrote Giants: The colossal trees of Pacific North America, 1997. Between 1999 and 2008, she edited three cookbooks by Vancouver?s award-winning barbecue chef David Veljacic. As co-owners of Vancouver Magazine with lawyer Ron Stern and artists Iain and Ingrid Baxter, Paul and Audrey Grescoe founded Calgary and Edmonton Magazines and were the first editors of Calgary Magazine. They have collaborated on 5 books: Fragments of paradise, 1995; Alaska: the cruise lover's guide, 1998; The book of letters: 150 years of private Canadian correspondence, 2002; The book of war letters: 100 years of Canadian wartime correspondence, 2003; and The book of love letters, 2005. Paul and Audrey Grescoe were co-owners of Tribute Books, a publishing company in Vancouver and Toronto.

• https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/article-journalist-paul-grescoe-was-always-interested-in-the-world-and-the/
• https://vancouversunandprovince.remembering.ca/obituary/paul-grescoe-1087356544
• https://bcbooklook.com/r-i-p-paul-grescoe/