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Ken McGoogan is a Canadian writer - historian, biographer, novelist and journalist. He is the author of the internationally acclaimed bestseller Fatal Passage, about Scottish Arctic adventurer John Rae, which won the Writers' Trust of Canada Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize, the Canadian Authors' Association History Award and the Grant MacEwan Award. It also won a US Christopher Award as a work of artistic excellence that 'affirms the highest values of the human spirit'. He is also the author of the critically acclaimed Ancient Mariner, a biography of the British explorer Samuel Hearne. He lives with his family in Toronto, Canada.
An exhaustive and scrupulously researched biography. -- Sara Wheeler The Times McGoogan's sharp insight has portrayed a deliciously satisfying portrait. BBC History Magazine 'Ken McGoogan has written a scrupulous, surprising, illuminating and, dare one say it, affectionate biography of a woman whose life as a diarist, traveller and social reformer will come to surpass many of her better-known contemporaries. A woman who, in her vigorous and relentless quest for the truth concerning the fate of her husband and his search for the Northwest Passage, has done considerably more to map and make known the kaleidoscopic maze of the Canadian Arctic than a boatload of less well equipped adventurers' -- Robert Edric Detailed, thorough and compulsive Mail on Sunday This well-written, fast-paced book presents a fascinating picture not only of this iconic widow but also of the age itself. -- THE GOOD BOOK GUIDE, Jan07
