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Tim Falconer
Tim Falconer is an author and journalist in Toronto. His new book is Bad Singer: The Surprising Science of Tone Deafness and How We Hear Music (House of Anansi, 2016).
His three other non-fiction books are about a wide range of topics, including end-of-life ethics (That Good Night: Ethicists, Euthanasia and End-of-Life Care); our love-hate relationship with the car (Drive: A Road Trip through Our Complicated Affair with the Automobile); and activism (Watchdogs and Gadflies: Activism from Marginal to Mainstream). He’s also the co-author, with popular parenting expert Dr. Alex Russell, of Drop the Worry Ball: How to Parent in the Age of Entitlement.
He began teaching magazine journalism at Ryerson University in 1995 and has been the instructor on eight issues of the award-winning Ryerson Review of Journalism. He also teaches creative non-fiction at the University of King's College in Halifax. In 2016, he will be a faculty editor at the Banff Literary Journalism program (he was a fellow in the program in 2007). In 2012, he spent three amazing months in Dawson City, Yukon, as writer-in-residence at Berton House.
