Editing Robert Priest (section)

==Biography==
Born in 1951, his family emigrated to Toronto, Canada, at the age of four. His father spent seven years in the [[Royal Navy|British Navy]], and his mother, a part-time standup comedian was a member of the [[Women's Royal Naval Service]] (WRNS), popularly known as the Wrens. Growing up in [[Scarborough, Toronto|Scarborough]], Priest developed a love of literature from the fanciful stories his mother often told before bedtime and later from the books available to him from the bookmobile – a mobile public library. By the age of eight, Priest says, he had already begun to dream of becoming a writer. In 1970 he entered the [[University of Waterloo]] to study mathematics, but, much more compelled to write poetry dropped out after one semester. Since his first book of poetry (''The Visible Man'', 1979), he has published eighteen more books of poetry, four plays, four children's/young adult novels and many articles in Toronto's Now Magazine. He is also a singer-songwriter of note, having released six rock albums for adults and three collections of children's music.  He also wrote and performed numerous children's songs for CBC radio's ''[[Is Anybody Home]]'' and for the long-running television show ''[[Sesame Street]]''. A song he cowrote with Nancy Simmonds and Alannah Myles was a number one hit in Canada and is still played all around the world. He lives in Toronto with Marsha Kirzner.<ref>{{cite web
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