Don Gillmor is an acclaimed, multi-disciplinary Canadian author, journalist, and former magazine editor whose extensive body of work expertly traverses satirical fiction, profound cultural non-fiction, and children's literature. McNally Robinson Booksellers notes he was educated at the University of Calgary before basing his prolific creative career in Toronto. As a powerhouse in Canadian media, he has served as a senior editor for The Walrus, with his sharp feature journalism earning a monumental 12 National Magazine Awards. In addition to his bestselling, award-winning companion volumes for CBC's Canada: A People’s History, he has authored nine celebrated children's books—securing two Governor General’s Award nominations—and five major novels. His fiction includes his cartographic epic debut Kanata, the middle-class yuppie satire Mount Pleasant, the sprawling global oil epic Long Change, and the critically acclaimed 2023 mid-life crisis thriller Breaking and Entering. Gillmor is equally revered for his deeply moving non-fiction; his raw, investigative memoir exploring his brother's suicide, To the River, won the 2019 Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction. He further cemented his status as a premier public intellectual with his industry expose On Oil, a finalist for the 2026 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, and his gripping, complex Toronto-set literary crime thriller, Cherry Beach (2026).
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