Peter Robinson (17 March 1950 – 4 October 2022) was a British-born Canadian crime writer. He is best known for his crime novels set in Yorkshire featuring Inspector Alan Banks
Robinson lived in the Beaches area of Toronto[6] with his wife, Sheila Halladay, and he occasionally taught crime writing at the University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Studies.
He also taught at a number of Toronto colleges and served as Writer-in-Residence at the University of Windsor, from 1992–1993. Robinson and his wife had a holiday cottage in Richmond, North Yorkshire. He died on 4 October 2022, at the age of 72
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Peter Robinson has not said much about his family or made anything known about his family to the public so therefore there is not much information about his family.
Robinson was awarded a BA Honours Degree in English Literature at the University of Leeds. He then emigrated to Canada in 1974 and took his MA in English and Creative Writing at the University of Windsor, with Joyce Carol Oates as his tutor, then a Ph.D. in English at York University in Toronto