About John Gallishaw
Lived 1890 – 1968 (aged 77–78). John Gallishaw was a Canadian writer.
Alonzo John Gallishaw (St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, 1891–1968) was a Canadian author and teacher.
Biography He studied at Harvard until the First World War broke out in 1914. At that point, aged 23, he returned to Canada and joined the Canadian army in Halifax and was assigned to the Cyclist Corps of the Second Division, Canadian Expeditionary Force. In March 1915, he asked for and got a discharge, and on April 3 enlisted in the First Newfoundland regiment
Works Trenching at Gallipoli. A Personal Narrative of a Newfoundlander with the Ill-fated Dardanelles Expedition (1916) The Man in the Ranks (1917) The Only Two Ways to Write a Story (1928) Twenty Problems of the Fiction Writer (1929) Advanced Problems of the Fiction Writer (1931)
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Who was John Gallishaw?
Canadian writer and teacher (1891–1968)
When was John Gallishaw born?
John Gallishaw was born in 1890 in St. John's.
When did John Gallishaw die?
John Gallishaw died in 1968 in Honolulu.
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John Gallishaw was a writer.
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John Gallishaw was Canadian.
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