The son of a doctor, Osborne was born in 1947 in
Pangnirtung on
Baffin Island,
Northwest Territories (now
Nunavut), and grew up in
Edmonton,
Kamloops and
Vancouver. In 1971, he co-founded
Arsenal Pulp Press, a literary book publisher based in Vancouver. He's also won the National Magazine Foundation Special Achievement Award. He has written introductions to the books
The North End (photographs by
John Paskievich) and
One Ring Circus: Extreme Wrestling in the Minor Leagues. Osborne currently lives in
Vancouver,
British Columbia. ==Bibliography==