Harland Reesor Williams was born on November 14, 1962, in Toronto, Ontario, to Lorraine Mary (née O\'Donnell), a social worker, and John Reesor Williams, a lawyer who served as a member of the Ontario legislature from 1975 to 1985. He is the middle child of five with two older and two younger sisters.\n', '

Harland holds dual citizenship with Canada and the United States.\n', '

He is the author and illustrator of his own series of children\'s books involving a little brontosaurus named Jimbo. Williams\' love of art drove him to create the series, in which the curious, young dinosaur embarks on a series of amazing adventures and learns important life lessons in the process. The artistically inclined Williams had refined his passion for drawing and painting at Canada\'s Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario. Finding a creative outlet in poetry and painting while working as a forest ranger for five years after dropping out of Sheridan College, Williams set his goals to leave the forest as a stand-up comic and actor, soon moving to Los Angeles to pursue his newfound calling.\n', '

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