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Ken McGoogan Author & Editor

Ken McGoogan is a Canadian writer - historian, biographer, novelist and journalist. He is the author of the internationally acclaimed bestseller FatalPassage, about Scottish Arctic adventurer John Rae, which won the Writers' Trust of Canada Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize, the Canadian Authors' Association History Award and the Grant MacEwan Award. It also won a US Christopher Award as a work of artistic excellence that 'affirms the highest values of the human spirit'. He is also the author of the critically acclaimed Ancient Mariner, a biography of the British explorer Samuel Hearne. He lives with his family in Toronto, Canada.