Brian Fawcett

Brian Fawcett (born May 13, 1944) is a Canadian writer^[1] and cultural analyst who lives in Toronto, Ontario.

He was born and raised in Prince George, in northwest British Columbia, and graduated from Simon Fraser University as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow. Before becoming a full time writer, he worked as an urban planner. In 2001, he co-founded (with Stan Persky) the website www.dooneyscafe.com (named after a restaurant on Toronto's Bloor Street West), which is described as "a news service" and to which he is a regular contributor. He has also taught cultural literacy in maximum security prisons. Virtual Clearcut: Or, the Way Things Are in My Hometown won the 2003 Pearson Prize for Canadian non-fiction.

Bibliography

Fiction

• The Opening: Prince George, Finally (1974)
• My Career with the Leafs and Other Stories - 1982
• Capital Tales - 1984
• The Secret Journal of Alexandre Mackenzie - 1985
• Cambodia: A Book For People Who Find Television too Slow - 1986
• Public Eye: An Investigation Into the Disappearance of the World - 1990
• Gender Wars: A Novel and Some Conversation About Sex and Gender - 1994

Poetry

• Five Books of a Northmanual - 1971
• Friends - 1971
• Permanent Relationships - 1975
• Creatures of State - 1977
• Tristram's Book - 1981
• Aggressive Transport - 1982

Non-fiction

• Unusual Circumstances, Interesting Times and Other Impolite Interventions - 1991
• The Compact Garden: Discovering the Pleasures of Planting in a Small Space - 1992
• The Disbeliever's Dictionary: A Completely Disrespectful Lexicon of Canada Today - 1997
• Virtual Clearcut, or The Way Things Are in My Hometown - 2003
• Local Matters: A Defence of Dooney's Café and other Non-Globalized Places, People, and Ideas - 2003

References

External links

• www.dooneyscafe.com