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
- The Last of the Lumbermen – 2013
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
Human Happiness, 2011
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