Authors from Canada

Tom Thomson
Tom Thomson
Artists

Thomas John Thomson was an influential Canadian artist of the early 20th century. He directly influenced a group of painters that would come to be known as the Group of...

Tanya Huff
Tanya Huff
Authors

Tanya Sue Huff (born 1957) is a Canadian fantasy author. Her stories have been published since the late 1980s, including five fantasy series and one science-fiction series. One of these, her...

Darren Barefoot
Darren Barefoot
Authors

Darren Barefoot is a writer and marketing executive based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He is a founding partner at Capulet Communications, a public relations firm specializing in...

Margaret Gibson
Margaret Gibson
Authors

Margaret Gibson (June 4, 1948 - February 25, 2006) was a Canadian novelist and short story writer who lived in Toronto, Ontario. Born and raised in the Toronto suburb of Scarborough, Gibson...

Les Stroud
Les Stroud
TV Actors & Actresses, Musical Artists, Authors

Les Stroud (born October 20, 1961, in Mimico, Ontario) is a Canadian musician, film maker, and survival expert best known as the creator, writer, producer, director, cameraman and host of...

Cheryl Kaye Tardif
Cheryl Kaye Tardif
Authors

Cheryl Kaye Tardif is a Canadian mystery writer best known for Canada-based novels Whale Song, Divine Intervention, and The River. Her novels involve social issues such...

David Suzuki
David Suzuki
Actors & Actresses, Authors

David Takayoshi Suzuki, CC, OBC, Ph.D LLD (born March 24, 1936), is a Japanese Canadian academic, science broadcaster and environmental activist. Suzuki earned a Ph.D in zoology from the...

S. I. Hayakawa
S. I. Hayakawa
Authors, Politicians

Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa (July 18, 1906 – February 27, 1992) was a Canadian-American academic and political figure of Japanese ancestry. He was an English professor, served as president of San...

Joy Kogawa
Joy Kogawa
Authors

Joy Nozomi Kogawa C.M. is a Canadian poet and novelist of Japanese descent. Born Joy Nozomi Nakayama in Vancouver, British Columbia, she was sent to internment camps in the Slocan and...

Karen Miller
Karen Miller
Authors

Karen Miller is an Australian writer. Miller was born in Vancouver, Canada and came to Australia at the age of two. After graduating from the Sydney University of Technology she moved to...

Ian Hacking
Ian Hacking
Authors

Ian Hacking, CC, FRSC, FBA (born February 18, 1936) is a Canadian philosopher, specializing in the philosophy of science. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, he has undergraduate...

Andy Quan
Andy Quan
Authors

Andy Quan (born 7 July 1969, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada), is a Chinese-Canadian author who now lives in Sydney, Australia. In his writing, he frequently explores the ways in...

Sarah Ellis
Sarah Ellis
Authors

This article is about the contemporary Canadian children's author. For the 19th Century English author of books about women, see Sarah Stickney Ellis. Sarah Ellis (born in Vancouver, British...

James Doohan
James Doohan
TV Actors & Actresses, Musical Artists, Actors & Actresses, Authors

James Montgomery "Jimmy" Doohan ( /ˈduːən/ DOO-ən; March 3, 1920 – July 20, 2005) was a Canadian character and voice actor best known for his role as Montgomery "Scotty" Scott in the...

Wendy Lill
Wendy Lill
Authors, Politicians

Wendy Lill (born November 2, 1950) is an award-winning Canadian playwright, screenwriter and radio dramatist who served as an NDP Member of Parliament from 1997 to 2004. Her stage plays have...

Michael Donovan
Michael Donovan
TV Actors & Actresses, Authors

Michael David Donovan is a voice actor for many TV shows and anime. He is most known for his voice on the series ReBoot for his voices of Phong, Mike the TV, Cecil, and Al. He has also...

Rafe Mair
Rafe Mair
Authors

Rafe Mair, born December 31, 1931 (1931-12-31) (age 78), is a lawyer, political commentator and former radio personality and politician in British Columbia, Canada. Mair was born in...

Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow
Authors

Saul Bellow, born Solomon Bellows , was an acclaimed American writer of Russian-Jewish origin. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976 and the National Medal of Arts...

H. L. Gold
H. L. Gold
Authors

Horace Leonard Gold was a science fiction writer and editor. Born in Canada, Gold moved to the United States...

Bret Hart
Bret Hart
Actors & Actresses, Musical Artists, TV Actors & Actresses, Authors

Bret Sergeant Hart (born July 2, 1957) is a Canadian writer and retired professional and amateur wrestler, best known for his work in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and its previous...

Lorne Michaels
Lorne Michaels
Authors

Lorne Michaels, CM is a Canadian-born American television producer, writer and comedian best known for creating and producing Saturday Night Live and producing the various...

Edward Graydon Carter
Edward Graydon Carter
Authors, Actors & Actresses

Edward Graydon Carter (born 14 July 1949) is a Canadian-born American journalist and has served as the editor of Vanity Fair since 1992. He also co-founded, with Kurt Andersen and Tom...

Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
Authors

Herbert Marshall McLuhan, C.C. was a Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar — a professor of English literature, a literary critic, a rhetorician, and a communications...

Kit Pearson
Kit Pearson
Authors

Kathleen Margaret Pearson (born 30 April 1947) is a Canadian writer and winner of numerous literature awards. Pearson is perhaps best known for her linked novels The Sky Is Falling (1989...

W. P. Kinsella
W. P. Kinsella
Musical Artists, Authors

William Patrick Kinsella, OC, OBC is a Canadian novelist and short story writer who is well-known for his novel Shoeless Joe which was adapted into the movie Field of Dreams...

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