Ken McGoogan is the author of four award-winning nonfiction books about the Northwest Passage: Fatal
Passage, Ancient Mariner, Lady Franklin’s Revenge, and Race to the Polar Sea. He has also published three novels, one of
which (Visions of Kerouac) is
available in translation. For two decades, Ken worked as a journalist, most notably as books editor at The
Calgary Herald. These
days, he reviews books for the Globe and Mail
and writes a column for Canada’s History
(the magazine formerly known as The
Beaver). Ken also teaches narrative nonfiction at the University of Toronto, sails in the Northwest Passage as a resource historian with Adventure Canada, and serves as chair of the Public Lending Right Commission. In autumn 2010, he will publish How
the Scots Invented Canada.
PUBLICATIONS:
Race to the Polar Sea: The Heroic Adventures of Elisha Kent Kane. HarperCollins Canada, Counterpoint Press (U.S.), 2009
Lady Franklin's Revenge: A True Story of Ambition, Obsession and the Remaking of Arctic History. CAN :HarperCollins Canada, 2005; UK: Bantam, 2006.
Ancient Mariner: The Amazing Adventures of Samuel Hearne, the Sailor Who. CAN: HarperCollins Canada; UK: Bantam; USA: Carroll & Graf, 2004.
Fatal Passage: The Untold Story of John Rae, the Arctic Adventurer Who Discovered the Fate of Franklin. CAN: HarperCollins Canada; UK: Bantam; USA: Carroll & Graf, 2002.
Visions of Kerouac: Satori Magic Edition. Willow Avenue Books, 2007
AWARDS:
Pierre Berton Award for History
Canadian Authors' Association History Award
Writers' Trust Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize
University of British Columbia Medal for Canadian Biography
Christopher Award (U.S.)
Grant MacEwan Author's Award.
The Sandpiper/Steinbeck Freedom of Expression Award.
