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Farley Mowat was born 12 May 1921 in Belleville, Ontario and grew up in Windsor and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. As a teenager, he wrote a column for Saskatoon's The StarPhoenix and then joined the army. After his discharge in 1945, Mowat attended the University of Toronto, earning a degree in 1949. He has been a full-time writer ever since, although not without controversy over whether his books are fact or fiction.

Books by Farley Mowat

	1952 People of the Deer	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1955 The Regiment	Biblio.com
	1956 Lost in the Barrens (also published as Two Against the North) Two boys set out on a canoe trip in the Canadian Arctic.	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1957 The Dog Who Wouldn't Be	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1958 Coppermine Journey: An Account of a Great Adventure	Biblio.com
	1959 Grey Seas Under	Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1959 The Desperate People	Amazon.ca Biblio.com
	1960 Ordeal by Ice	Biblio.com
	1961 Owls in the Family	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1961 The Serpent's Coil	Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1962 The Black Joke	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1963 Never Cry Wolf	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1965 Westviking: The Ancient Norse in Greenland and North America	Biblio.com
	1966 The Curse of the Viking Grave	Amazon.ca Biblio.com
	1967 The Polar Passion: The Quest for the North Pole, with Selections from Arctic Journals	Biblio.com
	1967 Canada North	Biblio.com
	1968 This Rock Within the Sea: A Heritage Lost	Biblio.com
	1969 The Boat Who Wouldn't Float	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1970 Sibir: My Discovery of Siberia	Amazon.ca Biblio.com
	1972 A Whale for the Killing	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1973 Tundra: Selections from the Great Accounts of Arctic Land Voyages	Biblio.com
	1973 Wake of the Great Sealers	Biblio.com
	1975 The Snow Walker (from the short story ‘Walk Well, My Brother’)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1976 Canada North Now: The Great Betrayal	Biblio.com
	1979 And No Birds Sang	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1980 The World of Farley Mowat	Biblio.com
	1984 Sea of Slaughter	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1985 My Discovery of America	Biblio.com
	1987 Virunga: The Passion of Dian Fossey (republished as Woman in the Mists)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1989 The New Founde Land: A Personal Voyage	Biblio.com
	1990 Rescue the Earth	Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1992 My Father's Son: Memories of War and Peace	Amazon.ca Biblio.com
	1993 Born Naked	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1995 Aftermath: Travels in a Post-War World	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1997 The Farley Mowat Reader	Amazon.ca Biblio.com
	1998 The Farfarers	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1999 The Alban Quest: The Search for a Lost Tribe	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	2000 Walking on the Land	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	2002 High Latitudes: An Arctic Journey	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	2004 No Man's River	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	2006 Bay of Spirits: A Love Story	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	2008 Otherwise	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
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Awards

• Governor General's Literary Award – Children's Literature
  • 1956 – Lost in the Barrens – Winner

• Order of Canada
  • 1981 – Officer

• Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour
  • 1970 – The Boat Who Wouldn't Float – Winner

• Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature
  • 1970 Winner

Added 15 January 2006.
Updated 16 May 2010.