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PRESS KITBIO | AWARDS | BOOKS | OTHER ROLES | APPOINTMENTS | APPEARANCESBiographer and historian Ken McGoogan first attracted international attention with Fatal Passage: The Untold Story of John Rae. A Canadian bestseller (fourteen weeks on national lists), that book won four literary awards, including one in the United States, and was short-listed for three others. With Fatal Passage, Ken drew on both the research skills he had developed as a journalist and the narrative techniques he had honed writing novels. He took the same approach with Ancient Mariner: The Amazing Adventures of Samuel Hearne, which drew rave reviews internationally and elicited invitations to England, Tasmania, and New Orleans. An inveterate traveler, he accepted all of them. Born in Montreal and raised in a small French-speaking town, Ken has lived all over Canada — Quebec, Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta, New Brunswick, and the Yukon — as well as in California, Greece, and Tanzania. In his twenties, Ken worked as a bicycle messenger in San Francisco, a forest fire lookout in the Canadian Rockies, and a French teacher in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Later, he visited the High Arctic, explored Europe and the United States, and rambled around Kenya, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, India and Sri Lanka. Along the way, Ken attended universities in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver, earning a bachelor’s degree in journalism (Ryerson) and a master’s degree in creative writing (University of British Columbia). He worked as a journalist at The Toronto Star and The Montreal Star, and spent more than a decade as books editor and columnist at The Calgary Herald. Ken has also written for The Globe and Mail, The National Post, The Winnipeg Free Press, Canadian Geographic, Calgary magazine, Explore magazine, The Beaver, Quill & Quire, B.C. Bookworld, Books in Canada, and The Literary Review of Canada. Having taught writing in Alberta, New Brunswick, British Columbia and Tasmania, Ken currently teaches non-fiction in Toronto, where he lives with his artist-wife, |
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