Douglas Gibson

Douglas Maitland Gibson, C.M. (born December 4, 1943) is a Canadian editor, publisher and writer. Best known as the former president and publisher of McClelland and Stewart, he was particularly noted for his professional relationships with many of Canada's most prominent and famous writers.

Born in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland and raised in the nearby village of Dunlop, Gallant, a Canadian writer who had spent much of her life and career living in Paris, France as an expatriate, was not considered to be well known in the Canadian market and did not even have a Canadian publisher at all until Gibson approached her. He also spearheaded the creation and publication of Home Truths, a compilation of Gallant's Canadian-themed stories which was her only title ever to win the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction. Robertson Davies, Bruce Hutchison, Jack Hodgins, Alice Munro and Morley Callaghan were also among the writers who established relationships with Gibson in this era.

In the early 1980s, he also contributed film reviews to CBC Radio's Sunday Morning. becoming publisher of the company in 1988

Following his retirement in 2008, Gibson published a memoir, Stories About Storytellers: Publishing Alice Munro, Robertson Davies, Alistair MacLeod, Pierre Trudeau, and Others, in 2011.

Douglas Gibson Books

Gibson retired from his primary role with M&S, but he continued to hold the role of publisher emeritus with Douglas Gibson Books.

Works published by Douglas Gibson Books have included short story collections by Alice Munro and Mavis Gallant, Terry Fallis' novels The Best Laid Plans and The High Road, Paul Wells' Right Side Up: The Fall of Paul Martin and the Rise of Stephen Harper's New Conservatism, Yves Beauchemin's A Very Bold Leap and The Years of Fire, James Bartleman's memoir Raisin Wine: A Boyhood in a Different Muskoka, and Max Nemni and Monique Nemni's series of biographies of Pierre Trudeau.