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Editor:

The Canadian Rockies. James Lorimer & Co., 2002. Ken served as managing editor for this popular travel guide, assigning and editing two dozen articles.

Searching For Sam: A Father’s Quest for Meaning. Tim Johnson, 2002. Ken revised this work and turned it into a trade paperback, subcontracting design and printing.

The Jesuit and the Dragon. Howard Solverson, Robert Davies Publishing, 1995. As editor, McGoogan reduced the “final draft” of this biography of an adventurous Jesuit priest by 30,000 words.

Journalist:

While writing several books, Ken also worked as a journalist at The Toronto Star, The Montreal Star and The Calgary Herald. As books editor and columnist at the Southam-owned Herald, he filed book-trade articles from across the country. He also interviewed and profiled roughly two hundred authors, among them Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood, William Golding, Mavis Gallant, Robertson Davies, Mordecai Richler, Margaret Drabble, Ken Kesey, Peter Carey, J.P. Donleavy, Jerzy Kosinski, Janette Turner Hospital and Elmore Leonard.

Teacher:

Ken taught first-year English at the University of British Columbia and high-school French in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He has since taught writing workshops in Dawson City, Nelson, Saint John, and Tasmania, and a variety of courses at Mount Royal College in Calgary. He currently teaches nonfiction at the University of Toronto.

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