Remembering Raymond J. Smith (1930 - 2008) by Greg Johnson

The Ontario Review, Inc. was founded in 1974 by Raymond J. Smith and Joyce Carol Oates in Windsor, Ontario, where both were teaching at the University of Windsor. The first issue of Ontario Review appeared in Fall 1974. The first books under that imprint were not to appear until Fall 1980, after the editors had moved to Princeton, New Jersey. Oates had been asked to join the Creative Writing Program at Princeton University; Smith left a 20-year teaching career to concentrate full time on publishing.

The Spring 2008 Ontario Review will be the last issue. It will be discontinued due to the death of Raymond Smith, the founder and Editor.

"Patience. Tact. Kindness. These are some of the qualities most often mentioned by the friends of Raymond J. Smith, who passed away on February 18, 2008 at the age of seventy-seven." [Read more...]