Brian Fawcett
Brian Fawcett is a Canadian writer and cultural analyst who lives in Toronto, Ontario.
Fawcett 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 the website www.dooneyscafe.com, 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. In 2003 Virtual Clearcut: Or, the Way Things Are in My Hometown won the Pearson Writers’ Trust Non-Fiction Prize.Fiction
- The Opening: Prince George, Finally
- My Career with the Leafs and Other Stories
- Capital Tales
- The Secret Journal of Alexandre Mackenzie
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- Public Eye: An Investigation Into the Disappearance of the World
- Gender Wars: A Novel and Some Conversation About Sex and Gender
- The Last of the Lumbermen
- A Blue Spruce Christmas
Poetry
- Five Books of a Northmanual
- Friends
- Five Books of A Norhmanual
- The Opening
- Permanent Relationships
- The Second Life
- Creatures of State
- Tristram's Book
- Aggressive Transport
Non-fiction
- Unusual Circumstances, Interesting Times and Other Impolite Interventions
- The Compact Garden: Discovering the Pleasures of Planting in a Small Space
- The Disbeliever's Dictionary: A Completely Disrespectful Lexicon of Canada Today
- Virtual Clearcut, or The Way Things Are in My Hometown
- Local Matters: A Defence of Dooney's Café and other Non-Globalized Places, People, and Ideas
- Human Happiness
