Saturday July 05, 2008
Biography 
Warren Clements is a member of The Globe and Mail’s editorial board. His weekly columns include a Friday look at DVDs, a Saturday article on Word Play and a Saturday humour column called The Challenge, which he edits and the readers write. He is also the co-editor and co-author (with retired senior editor Sandy McFarlane) of The Globe and Mail Style Book, published by McClelland & Stewart.
Past exploits include graduating with a film degree from York University; working as a reporter at The Montreal Star; helping to start Canadian Living magazine, as one member of a minuscule staff beavering away in a manse in Mississauga, Ont.; writing and drawing a comic strip called The Nestlings (starring birds, worms and a grumpy squirrel-cum-landlord) in the 1980s; editing The Globe’s Comment page for a few years in the 1990s; writing six-to-12-minute musical pastiches of Shakespeare’s plays, which have been produced at Toronto’s Arts & Letters Club for the past dozen years as part of its annual spring show; and generally trying to make himself useful. Past books include The Nestlings: First Flight, The Nestlings: Return Flight, Thank Goodness It’s Saturday (a collection of humorous Saturday pieces co-written with Alastair Lawrie) and two collections of Challenge entries, The Globe Challenge (out of print) and The Full Mountie (still in print, also from McClelland & Stewart). Books he has illustrated include Writing With Style and Marketing Research. He and his wife Alexandra are working on a volume of bird poems.
