Philip Lee
Michael Harris calls Philip Lee one of the countrys best-kept journalistic secrets. Drawing on his skill and experience as an investigative journalist, Lee based Frank: The Life and Politics of Frank McKenna on a wide range of published material, on diaries, and other confidential records, and on interviews with McKenna and those around him, from family friends to political enemies. Beginning with stories for The Sunday Express that prompted the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Mount Cashel orphanage, Philip Lees writing has received numerous honours. In 1991, Lee joined the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal and Saint John Times Globe, where he wrote the award-winning series Watershed Down and the book Home Pool. In 1998, after two years as editor of the Atlantic Salmon Journal, Lee returned to the Telegraph Journal as editor-in-chief. Under his leadership, the newspaper and its weekend magazine, The New Brunswick Reader, won several regional and national newspaper and magazine awards. Philip Lee currently writes for the Ottawa Citizen and is head of the journalism program at St. Thomas University in Fredericton.
Bittersweet
Sometimes the life we have constructed needs to fall apart before we can begin the process of making something better. After his first marriage ended, Philip Lee found himself living with his younger brother in an old fisherman’s house by the sea, trying to restore some order to the wreckage of his life. It was a dark year of rain-bucket showers, …
Frank
Frank takes readers on a journey into the political backrooms and corporate boardrooms that make up Frank McKenna’s world, and offers a compelling glimpse of the private life and hidden agendas of a consummate insider. The book examines McKenna’s unique brand of entrepreneurial politics and his staunch determination to transform New Brunswick i …
Home Pool
Just about every salmon river flowing into the North Atlantic has a Home Pool, a place of beauty and peace where generations of salmon have lurked and generations of anglers have tempted them. But the magnificent Atlantic salmon faces extinction. In the fall of 1995, Philip Lee wrote Watershed Down, a series of articles in the New Brunswick Tel …
The STU Reader
St. Thomas University has nurtured exemplary people for a century from its first alighting in Newcastle to its current perch on a Fredericton hilltop. Here, in celebration of St. Thomass 100th anniversary, is the first-ever collection of fiction, poetry, and prose by the universitys most celebrated writers, including David Adams Richards, Sh …