biography
Q&A with Michael Bliss, author of Writing History: A Professor’s Life
Tell us about your book.
Writing History: A Professor’s Life is a full-length memoir/autobiography. I spent my career teaching and writing history and commenting on public affairs in Canada. The book is about how my career came to be, what it was like to do these things, an inside account of academic and literary life in [...]
Q&A with John Bacher, author of Two Billion Trees and Counting
My book is about how Edmund Zavitz rescued Ontario from the spreading deserts, forest fires and floods through reforestation of eroded lands in southern Ontario and the conservationist management of crown lands on the Canadian Shield. This was achieved with great patience and resolve over a long lifetime from 1875 to 1968.
How did you come up [...]
Q and A with author Walter Pitman
Walter Pitman is the former Director of the Ontario Arts Council, a Member of the Order of Ontario and an Officer of the Order of Canada. A longtime Dundurn author, he has previously published biographies about conductor Elmer Iseler (Elmer Iseler: Choral Visionary), and composer Louis Appelbaum (Louis Applebaum: A Passion for Culture), as well [...]
Tom Thomson – the debate continues
I just finished reading Northern Light: The Enduring Mystery of Tom Thomson and the Woman Who Loved Him by Roy Macgregor. I’m fascinated by the ongoing interest in the painter’s death. In March, 2011, Dundurn will publish Tom Thomson: Artist of the North by Wayne Larsen, part of our Quest Biography series. Recently, Wayne took [...]
Lifting the Silence
I usually mark Remembrance Day in the same way I have since I was in grade school. I take a minute of silence to remember those who fought to give us our freedom, and I’ll wear a poppy. This year, I’ll have more involvement due to Lifting the Silence: A World War II RCAF Bomber [...]
Peter Gzowski: Controversy Brewing
The Dundurn office has been abuzz with Peter Gzowski over the last few weeks. We’ve just released this detailed biography about the beloved Canadian media icon. Most of the major dailies and news outlets have put out some kind of coverage on the book — be it a review, a news item about the release, [...]
(Fictionally) Stolen from the CSIS Files…
Sam Montcalm has hit the shelves in his first case with Dundurn Press. Nightshade officially published less than a week ago! (You guys might remember how we featured Tom’s true-to-life murder investigation as quasi-tribute to its release.) As Sam moves across the country from the Dundurn stage, wouldn’t it be great to get a closer [...]
