Ken McGoogan is the Canadian author of fifteen books, including Flight of the Highlanders, Dead Reckoning, 50 Canadians Who Changed the World, How the Scots Invented Canada, and four biographical narratives focusing on northern exploration and published internationally: Fatal Passage, Ancient Mariner, Lady Franklin's Revenge, and Race to the Polar Sea. Born in Montreal and raised in a francophone town, McGoogan has traveled widely, both in Canada and abroad. After attending Sir George Williams University, he earned a bachelor's degree in journalism at Ryerson and a master's degree in creative writing at the University of British Columbia. For two decades, while producing one nonfiction book and three novels, McGoogan earned his living as a journalist and literary editor, working at The Toronto Star, The Montreal Star, and The Calgary Herald. He has served as a writer-in-residence in Toronto, Fredericton, Dawson City, Hobart and Stromness. He served as chair of the Public Lending Right Commission, sails as a lecturer with Adventure Canada, and writes frequently for Canadian Geographic, Celtic Life International, and the Globe and Mail. He won an award for teaching excellence at the University of Toronto and teaches in the MFA program in Creative Nonfiction at the University of King's College/Dalhousie University.
Flight of the Highlanders: The Making of Canada. 2019. Dead Reckoning: The Untold Story of the Northwest Passage. 2017 Celtic Lightning: How the Scots and the Irish Created a Canadian Nation. 2015 50 Canadians Who Changed the World. 2013. How the Scots Invented Canada. 2010 Race to the Polar Sea: The Heroic Adventures of Elisha Kent Kane Lady Franklin's Revenge: A True Story of Ambition, Obsession and the Remaking of Arctic History. 2005. Ancient Mariner: The Amazing Adventures of Samuel Hearne, the Sailor Who Walked to the Arctic Ocean. 2003. Fatal Passage: The Untold Story of John Rae, the Arctic Adventurer Who Discovered the Fate of Franklin. 2001. Kerouac's Ghost: A Novel 2016, 2007, 1993. Le Fantome de Kerouac 1998. Chasing Safiya. 1999. Calypso Warrior. 1995. Canada's Undeclared War: Fighting Words from the Literary Trenches.1991. Going For Gold. Co-author with Catriona Le May Doan. 2002.
