Ken McGoogan

KEN MCGOOGAN is the best-selling author of a dozen books, among them 50 Canadians Who Changed The World, How The Scots Invented Canada, Fatal Passage and Lady Franklin’s Revenge. He has won the Pierre Berton Award for History, the University of British Columbia Medal for Canadian Biography, the Canadian Authors’ Association History Award, the Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize and an American Christopher Award for “a work of artistic excellence that affirms the highest values of the human spirit.” Before turning mainly to books, Ken worked for two decades as a journalist at major dailies in Toronto, Calgary and Montreal. He teaches creative nonfiction writing through the University of Toronto and in the MFA program at King’s College in Halifax. Ken served as chair of the Public Lending Right Commission, has written recently for Canada’s History, Canadian Geographic and Maclean’s, and sails with Adventure Canada as a resource historian. Based in Toronto, he has given talks and presentations across Canada, and in faraway places as different as Edinburgh, Sydney, Stromness, and Hobart. www.kenmcgoogan.com

Books by Ken McGoogan

Shadows of Tyranny

Searching for Franklin

Flight of the Highlanders

Dead Reckoning

Celtic Lightning

Celtic Lightning

50 Canadians Who Changed The World

John Rae's Arctic Correspondence, 1844-1855

A Journey to the Northern Ocean

Lady Franklin's Revenge

How The Scots Invented Canada

Race To The Polar Sea

Ancient Mariner

Fatal Passage

Race To The Polar Sea

A Journey to the Northern Ocean

Lady Franklin's Revenge

Lady Franklins Revenge

Ancient Mariner

Fatal Passage

Chasing Safiya