Linwood Barclay

What grabs me about Linwood Barclay is the reinvention. He spent years as a humor columnist and journalist before turning, past fifty, into a bestselling thriller writer with No Time for Goodbye. I think that newsroom background is exactly why his suburban-menace novels work so well: he knows how ordinary domestic life can quietly curdle into dread, and he reports it with a reporter's precision rather than melodrama. Born American, made his name in Canada, he proves a career can pivot hard and still feel earned. I have a real soft spot for storytellers who built their craft slowly before the spotlight ever found them.

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Name (English)

Linwood Barclay

Name (Japanese)

リンウッド・バークレイ

Reading

りんうっど・ばーくれい

Born

1955

Origin

Darien, Connecticut, United States

Occupation

journalist / novelist / writer / philologist / literary scholar

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Goat

University

Trent University

Filmography / notable works

• Official sitehttps://www.linwoodbarclay.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linwood%20Barclay
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B3%E3%82%A6%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A4
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1827131

Tags

• Connecticut
• journalist
• novelist
• writer

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.