J Francis GriceAaron's Year of '77 is loosely based on the author's own life at this point in the 1970s. J Francis Grice grew up in Brockville, Ontario and left there for college at nineteen. Adam is a composite of several men he knew during this time. The novel's escriptions of College and Ottawa are as he remembers them.

Today, Grice is retired and lives in Kingston, Ontario, but he spent most of his life and career in Canada's Capital city working as a professional Interior Designer.

This novel is dedicated to his late partner and husband of forty years, Stephen D. Read More Read Less