David Carpenter Fiction A member of the Wood

A member of the Wood Engravers’ Network

in an effort to find the joy in creative work not as a path to the truth but as an end in itself

for freedom

or want to be

complete with the original illustrations by Leo Rampen

David Carpenter Fiction A member of the WoodDavid Carpenter, author of Niceman Cometh and Welcome to Canada, spent his first twenty three years in Edmonton, working during the summers as a car hop, a driver for Brewster Rocky Mountain Grayline, a fish stocker, a trail guide, and a folksinger. He read French and German at the University of Alberta to indifferent effect. He graduated and taught high school in Edmonton until 1965, then migrated south to do an M. A. in English at the University of