Ken McGoogan
McGoogan has won the Pierre Berton Award for popular history, the Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize, the Canadian Authors' Association History Award, the Grant MacEwan Author's Award, a University of Cambridge fellowship, the University of British Columbia medal for Canadian biography, and an American Christopher Award for "a work of artistic excellence that affirms the highest values of the human spirit." His book "Fatal Passage" evolved into an award-winning docudrama, "Passage", on which he served as a consultant. "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", 2014. "50 Canadians Who Changed the World", 2013. "The Arctic Journals of John Rae", ed. 2012
"How the Scots Invented Canada", 2010. "Race to the Polar Sea: The Heroic Adventures of Elisha Kent Kane", 2008
"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.
"Going For Gold". co-authored with Catriona Le May Doan, 2002. "Fatal Passage: The Untold Story of John Rae, the Arctic Adventurer Who Discovered the Fate of Franklin", 2001. "Chasing Safiya", 1999. "Calypso Warrior", 1995. "Kerouac's Ghost: A Novel", 1993. (French trans. "Le Fantôme de Kerouac")
"Canada's Undeclared War: Fighting Words from the Literary Trenches", 1991.
Selected works
Kenneth McGoogan (born 1947) 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" (John Rae), "Ancient Mariner" (Samuel Hearne), "Lady Franklin's Revenge" (Jane Franklin), and "Race to the Polar Sea" (Elisha Kent Kane).