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Martin Myers is the author of six comically philosophical novels: The Assignment, Frigate, Izzy Manheim's Reunion, The Secret Viking, The NeverMind of Brian Hildebrand, and the Return of the Secret Viking. He is also the author of a non-fiction work, The Urban Loft, a sort of renovator in the wry memoir masquerading as an architectural coffee table book. His fiction has won wide praise in the media and in literary publications in Canada, the US, and the UK. The popular press compares Myers' work to that of Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, Monty Python, and the Marx Brothers while one literary critic ranks it with "Joyce, Barthelme, Nabokov and Borges for scathing inventiveness that makes readers laugh out loud and then in an afterthought of conscience, question their own ethics, morals and reality." If pressed to define his style, Myers describes it as metaphysical mystery. His career has been a chequered one comprising such diverse vocations as broadcaster, magazine editor, actor, publisher, puppeteer, comic, TV time salesman, copywriter, restaurateur, car wash operator, realtor, broker, professor and novelist, among others. He graduated from the University of Toronto and post graduated from The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. For two years, he was a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Toronto and taught as well for five years in writing workshops at the U of T and York University, where he claims to have learned more than his students.
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