Brian Fawcett

Brian Fawcett (born May 13, 1944) is a Canadian writer and cultural analyst who currently lives in Toronto, Ontario.

He was born and raised in Prince George, in northwest British Columbia, and graduated from Simon Fraser University as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow. Before becoming a full time writer, he worked as an urban planner. In 2001, he co-founded (with Stan Persky) the website www.dooneyscafe.com (named after a restaurant on Toronto's Bloor Street West), which is described as "a news service" and to which he is a regular contributor. He has also taught cultural literacy in maximum security prisons. "Virtual Clearcut: Or, the Way Things Are in My Hometown" won the 2003 Pearson Prize for Canadian non-fiction. Fired from the Globe and Mail.

Bibliography

Fiction

*"The Opening: Prince George, Finally"(1974)
*"My Career with the Leafs and Other Stories" - 1982
*"Capital Tales" - 1984
*"The Secret Journal of Alexandre Mackenzie" - 1985
*"" - 1986
*"Public Eye: An Investigation Into the Disappearance of the World" - 1990
*"Gender Wars: A Novel and Some Conversation About Sex and Gender" - 1994

Poetry

*"Five Books of a Northmanual" - 1971
*"Friends" - 1971
*"Permanent Relationships" - 1975
*"Creatures of State" - 1977
*"Tristram's Book" - 1981
*"Aggressive Transport" - 1982

Non-fiction

*"Unusual Circumstances, Interesting Times and Other Impolite Interventions" - 1991
*"The Compact Garden: Discovering the Pleasures of Planting in a Small Space" - 1992
*"The Disbeliever's Dictionary: A Completely Disrespectful Lexicon of Canada Today" - 1997
*"Virtual Clearcut, or The Way Things Are in My Hometown" - 2003
*"Local Matters: A Defence of Dooney's Café and other Non-Globalized Places, People, and Ideas" - 2003

External links

* [http://www.dooneyscafe.com www.dooneyscafe.com]