John Vaillant

 

John Vaillant is the author of the nonfiction books The Golden Spruce and The Tiger, as well as the novel The Jaguar’s Children. Vaillant has received the Governor General’s Literary Award, British Columbia’s National Award for Canadian Nonfiction, the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize and the Pearson Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction. He has written for, among others, the New Yorker, the Atlantic, National Geographic and the Walrus. He lives in Vancouver.