John Ralston Saul

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John Ralston Saul was born on 19 June 1947 in Ottawa. He received his B.A. from McGill University in 1969 and his Ph.D. from King's College, University of London in 1972. He created an investment firm in Europe in 1973 and managed it until 1976 when he returned to Canada. Saul has worked as a policy advisor for Petro-Canada and as secretary, vice-president, and president of the Canadian branch of PEN. He is an active public speaker and serves on several advisory boards. Saul is married to Adrienne Clarkson, former Governor General of Canada, and lives in Toronto.

Books by John Ralston Saul

	1977 The Birds of Prey (novel, also published as Mort d'un Général)
	1983 Baraka; or The Lives, Fortunes and Sacred Honor of Anthony Smith (novel)
	1986 The Next Best Thing (novel)
	1988 The Paradise Eater (novel)
	1992 Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West (non-fiction)
	1994 The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense (non-fiction)
	1994 De si bons Américains (novel)
	1995 The Unconscious Civilization (non-fiction)
	1997 Reflections of a Siamese Twin: Canada at the End of the Twentieth Century (non-fiction)
	2000 On Equilibrium (non-fiction)
	2005 The Collapse of Globalism and the Reinvention of the World (non-fiction)
	2006 Joseph Howe and the Battle for Freedom of Speech (non-fiction)
	2008 A Fair Country (non-fiction) Telling Truths about Canada
	2010 Louis-Hippolyte LaFontaine and Robert Baldwin (non-fiction)
	2012 Dark Diversions (novel)

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