About George Woodcock
George Woodcock was a Canadian writer of political biography and history, an anarchist thinker, a philosopher, an essayist and literary critic. He was also a poet and published several volumes of travel writing. In 1959 he was the founding editor of the journal Canadian Literature which was the first academic journal specifically dedicated to Canadian writing. He is most commonly known outside Canada for his book Anarchism: A History of Libertarian Ideas and Movements (1962). Instead, he took a job as a clerk at the Great Western Railway and it was there that he first became interested in anarchism. His first published work was The White Island, a collection of poetry, which was issued by Fortune Press in 1940. Toward the end of his life, Woodcock became increasingly interested in what he saw as the plight of Tibetans.
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