Henry Milner was born in a bunker in American occupied Frankfurt, West Germany as World War II was coming to an end. His parents, who had survived the war in the Soviet Union, moved the family to Canada, where they settled in Montreal. Earning a BA from McGill University and his MA and PhD in Political Science at Carleton, Milner spent his teaching career first at Vanier College and then based at the University of Montreal. He has also taught extensively in Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand.
He and his wife, Frances Boylston, divide their time between Montreal and the Dominican Republic, where they are closely involved with the Meeting Place, a not-for-profit International Resource Centre they founded to help snowbirds to get to know the country and to provide locals and Haitian migrants with English-language resources to be better equipped for employment in a tourism-oriented economy. Participant/Observer is Milner's eleventh book.
