Pierre Berton received over 30 literary awards including the Governor-General’s Award for Creative Non-Fiction (three times), the Stephen Leacock Medal of Humour, and the Gabrielle Leger National Heritage Award. He was a columnist and editor for the Toronto Star and was a writer and host of a series of CBC programs. He wrote columns for and was editor of Maclean’s magazine, appeared on CBC’s public affairs program “Close-Up” and was a permanent fixture on “Front Page Challenge” for 39 years. He spent his early newspaper career in Vancouver, where at 21 he was the youngest city editor on any Canadian daily. He spent four years in the army, rising from private to captain/instructor at the Royal Military College in Kingston. Born in 1920 and raised in the Yukon, Pierre Berton worked in Klondike mining camps during his university years. From narrative histories and popular culture, to picture and coffee table books to anthologies, to stories for children to readable, historical works for youth, many of his fifty books are now Canadian classics. Pierre Berton was one of Canada’s most popular and prolific authors.
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