Ken McGoogan was born in 1947 in Montreal, Quebec. He earned a B.A. in journalism from Ryerson University and an M.A. in creative writing from the University of British Columbia. He worked as a journalist at the Toronto Star, the Montreal Star, and the Calgary Herald, and now reviews for the Globe and Mail and writes a column for Canada's History. McGoogan lives in Toronto, Ontario.

Books by Ken McGoogan

	1991 Canada's Undeclared War (non-fiction) Fighting Words from the Literary Trenches
	1993 Visions of Kerouac (fiction) also published as Kerouac's Ghost (1996)
	1995 Calypso Warrior (fiction)
	1999 Chasing Safiya (fiction)
	2001 Fatal Passage (non-fiction) The Untold Story of John Rae, the Arctic Adventurer Who Discovered the Fate of Franklin
	2001 Going For Gold (non-fiction, with Catriona Le May Doan)
	2003 Ancient Mariner (non-fiction) The Amazing Adventures of Samuel Hearne, the Sailor Who Walked to the Arctic Ocean
	2005 Lady Franklin's Revenge (non-fiction) A True Story of Ambition, Obsession and the Remaking of Arctic History
	2008 Race to the Polar Sea (non-fiction) The Heroic Adventures and Romantic Obsessions of Elisha Kent Kane
	2010 How the Scots Invented Canada (non-fiction)
	2013 50 Canadians Who Changed the World
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Awards

• Evergreen Award
  • 2006 – Lady Franklin's Revenge – Shortlisted

Links

• Blog

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Added 15 January 2011.
Updated 03 July 2013.