George is an award-winning literary historian, playwright and screenwriter. His screenplay Peace Pledge, the remarkable story of the Peace Pledge Union, the strongest pacifist movement in history, received Honorable Mention in the Euroscript Screenwriting Competition and New Renaissance Film Festival (London). It won the Wildsound Festival Screenwriting Competition (Toronto). He has written extensively on the emotional consequences of war, most notably in Mourning And Mysticism in First World War Literature and Beyond: Grappling With Ghosts (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), now in paperback. In 2019 he received the Y.M.C.A. Peace Medal for his social justice work and writing over thirty years. His most recent book is a picture book titled, “How Hope Became An Activist” (Dixi, 2020). He is Professor and Chair of the English Department at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, British Columbia, where he teaches modern literature and creative writing.
