Jeffrey Moore was educated at the University of Toronto, the University of Ottawa and the Sorbonne (Paris). In addition to lecturing at all four Montreal universities, he has worked as a translator for theatre and dance troupes, film festivals and museums throughout the world. His first novel, Prisoner in a Red–Rose Chain, won the Commonwealth Prize (Best First Novel) in 2000, while his second novel, The Memory Artists, won the 2005 Canadian Authors Association Award and was shortlisted for the Rogers’ Writers Trust Fiction Prize, the Hugh MacLennan Prize, the WordsWorthy Award and Sunburst Award. Both novels have been optioned for film and published in some twenty countries. His latest novel, The Extinction Club, was published by Hamish Hamilton Canada in spring of 2010.

Praise For The Extinction Club

“Filled with dark humour and bright light, The Extinction Club is a moving and playful novel about the ultimate strength of human connections and the unquenchable will to persist in the face of hardship.”
—Quill & Quire

"Harrowing... Entertaining as well as educating."
—Times Literary Supplement

"Gripping and incisive. Moore integrates the novel's philosophical inquiries into violence and predation with an undeniably dynamic plot. His is not another plotless Canadian novel, nor is it merely one gun-filled chase through the woods after another. These gun chases are punctuated with compelling ideas..."
—Globe and Mail

"The main character is funnier, wiser, more observant and better read than just about anybody he comes across ... His healing of Céleste will ultimately heal him, and repair whatever thwarted or unfulfilled paternal issues he may have left behind. He is, in a word, a sane man in a crazy world."
—Toronto Star

"Hallucinogenic, mind-bending... Moore deftly transforms the Laurentians from idyllic cottage country to a macabre landscape filled with predatory humans ... Its eerie undercurrent calls to mind a David Lynch film."
—Montreal Gazette

"Jeffrey Moore's darkly funny literary novel ... employs plot twists and graphic violence (though not gratuitous) that would easily qualify for a Coen brothers' screenplay. Most important, the novel displays a wizardry with language, especially wordplay, that has parallels in the works of Saul Bellow, Vladimir Nabokov and David Mitchell."
—Winnipeg Free Press

"The writing is fresh and original, and the two main characters are wonderfully drawn and alive. Hemingway said that he did not work with characters but with people, and so does Jeffrey Moore. His protagonists are real—even if imagined—people. The novel is multi-layered—a fast-paced entertainment, a regional nature exploration, a comedy with quick—witted dialogue, and an environmentalist call to arms." QWF Jury, Hugh MacLennan Prize

Nominations For The Extinction Club

Nominated for the Dublin IMPAC Literary Award (Best Novel)
Shortlisted for the Hugh MacLennan Prize (Best Novel)
Shortlisted for the Arthur Ellis Award (Best Crime Novel)
Time Out (UK) Book of the Month

Praise For The Memory Artists

“The characters are well–meaning, generous and sweet–even the brilliant, misanthropic (and hilarious) ladies' man Norval… This is a rich novel, erudite and funny... The Memory Artists is a pleasure to read; it's strangely uplifting to spend time with these flawed but humane characters.” —The New York Times

“A wonderfully complex and unpredictably moving novel that juggles five deeply written and unique characters who are hard to forget.” —Entertainment Weekly

“Essential reading.” —Esquire

“Genuinely moving…characters both unique and recognisable” —Vancouver Sun

Praise for Prisoner in a Red Rose Chain

"A sparkling first novel by a young writer of whom more will surely be heard. It is a clever book, dense with literary allusions, but also a heart–warming one, with a thoroughly likeable hero, as romantic as he is accident–prone… The extravagance of the plot is matched by the exuberance of the writing." —Max Davidson, Sunday Telegraph

“Exuberant and smart…Red Rose Chain signals the arrival of a new, sophisticated comic author who combines John Irving’s inventive virtuosity with Tom Greens contempt for everything stuffy and comfy in our culture.” —National Post

"A book full of quirks and quick–turns, wit and erudition. Entertaining and exhausting, it's reminiscent of the early John Irving." —Ian Sansom, The Guardian