BC Bookworld
"One of B.C.'s literary characters has died. Paul St. Pierre, a wry comic writer sometimes compared to Mark Twain, passed away on July 27th at his home in Fort Langley.";

West Coast Review of Books
"Not since Mark Twain or the early Bret Harte have you run into a writer of short stories this good...These are tales torn from the depths of human emotion and delivered up fresh and full of meaning.";

John Mackie, Vancouver Sun
"With his mutton-chop sideburns and great shock of hair, St. Pierre cut a distinctive figure wherever he went. And he went most everywhere in B.C. in the 1950s, '60s and '70s, when he was one of the Vancouver Sun's most popular writers ... his writing was a huge influence on many B.C. writers...."; ( see entire article at www.vancouversun.com )

B.C. journalist Rod Mickleburgh (excerpts from ANOTHER LEGEND GONE see entire article at mickleblog.wordpress.com )
No slouch with the pen, himself, Sun veteran Doug Sagi calls St. Pierre "the finest writer to ever grace the newspaper";, and his short story, "Dry Storm, a Canadian classic to be compared with Hemingway, Twain or any of them";. Paul St. Pierre (1923-2014), RIP. "Read and remember him.";

"Highly-esteemed political columnist Les Leyne recalls tearing open bundles of the Vancouver Sun so he could read Paul St. Pierre's column, before heading out on his paper route.";

Jamie Lamb, former Ottawa bureau chief for The Vancouver Sun, and political columnist
"To me, Smith and Other Events is right up there with (Stephen Leacock's) Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town as the great Canadian book ..... it's entertaining, and it's a completely different take on everything from First Nations to ranchers to everything else. There's a chapter called How to Run The Country which is as good a political primer as any 10 text books.";

Scott McIntyre, Douglas & McIntyre, publisher
"This guy wears British Columbia on his sleeve, and our collective imagination is the richer for it.";

Edith Iglauer, author
"There are so few masters of humour that he deserves a special award for giving us so much pleasure.";

Barry Broadfoot Canadian interviewer and history writer
"Right down the gun barrel; a superb performance by One of the West's finest writers.";

Richard Smith, New York Times
"Paul St. Pierre renders these stories beautifully in...the kind of language that provides literature the nourishment it needs.";

Earl Gray, Thompson News Service
"St. Pierre is even funnier than Leacock. Funnier, sadder, more poignant, wiser, more gut wrenching and truer.";

Suzanne Freeman, USA Today "A sure, comic hand...";

Clare Backus, Denver Post
"An unsung literary giant in the grand populist mode of Mark Twain. ";

Phoebe-Lou Adams, Atlantic Monthly
"Except for the presence of unreliable motor vehicles and a few formerly unprintable words, they might have been written by Owen Wister. Mr. St. Pierre is equally adroit and better than Wister in dealing with women and Indians.";

Charles Lillard, Times-Colonist
"Paul St. Pierre is a story teller...In France or Germany they would erect a statue in his honour.";

Publishers Weekly
"Witty, finely crafted...picking a favorite is hard when so many of these warm, unsentimental tales leave you laughing out loud.";

Jim Blundell, St.Catherines Standard
"....his stories somehow grasp the very soul of Canada.";