A long-time resident of Forest, Ontario, Roger Harrington emigrated to Canada from England in 1960.  Since retiring from a teaching career, he has completed two novels and thirty-eight short stories.  He holds three degrees in literature.  

Roger draws his material for a remarkable variety of life experiences.  He was a successful Rock and Roll singer in England in the 1950's.  He moved from there to travel the world as a steward on ocean liners and eventually settled in Canada in 1960.

In 1961, he joined the Canadian Army and became a Russian interpreter.  After his term was up he applied to S.G.W.U., (now Concordia), for mature matriculant status.  There, he met and worked with many of the great names in Canadian literature; among them, Earl Birney, Irving Layton, Margaret Atwood, Leonard Cohen and Henry Biessel.  Like Norman Bethune, Roger worked as a Frontier College teacher and went to mines in the North West Territories and the Yukon as a labourer teacher; working in the mines by day and creating a school for the men after his shift.  He has been recognized for his work in the North with a charter membership in Rotary International.  His experiences in the Canadian North gave him the inspiration for his unpublished novel: "Anvil".

For his graduate degree, Roger worked out of the elite Massey College in Toronto University.  There he met and made friends with Northrop Frye, Margaret Laurence and W.O. Mitchell.  The Master of the College at that time was Robertson Davies.  All of them urged him to keep writing.

In 1971, Roger was offered a Lambton County Fellowship to teach in Forest, Ontario.  Soon after settling in Forest, he became First Vice-President of the local Legion and Reeve and Deputy-Mayor of the Town of Forest.  He has spent short times in Thailand and Japan as an advisor for the teaching of English as a foreign language.  He was also one of the most successful coaches of the TV high school academic challenge progam, "Reach for the Top", and led his small-town team to a Provincial championship. 

He lives, now, in quiet retirement in Forest where he spends his days writing.  Each year, he writes a Christmas story for the local newspaper, "The Forest Standard."