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Stan Dragland examines an artist fiercely loyal to his artistic practice

David Carpenter Fiction or want to beDavid Carpenter, author of Niceman Cometh and Welcome to Canada, spent his first twenty three years in Edmonton, working during the summers as a car hop, a driver for Brewster Rocky Mountain Grayline, a fish stocker, a trail guide, and a folksinger. He read French and German at the University of Alberta to indifferent effect. He graduated and taught high school in Edmonton until 1965, then migrated south to do an M. A. in English at the University of