Ken McGoogan - Author, Historian, Canadian Geographic Ambassador

Ken McGoogan

Author, Historian, Canadian Geographic Ambassador

It took him twenty-five years, six Arctic books, and numerous voyages with Adventure Canada, but author-historian Ken McGoogan believes he has solved the great Franklin mystery.

Ken has published sixteen books, among them six about northern exploration. These include Fatal Passage, Lady Franklinā€™s Revenge, Dead Reckoning, and Searching for Franklin: New Answers to the Great Arctic Mystery.

Ken has won the Pierre Berton Award for History, the University of British Columbia Medal for Biography, the Canadian Authorsā€™ Association History Award, and the Writers' Trust Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize. He has won awards as an athlete, a public speaker, a literary journalist, and a university teacher of creative nonfiction.

With two degrees and a Cambridge stint behind him, Ken survived a shipwreck off Dar es Salaam, chased the ghost of Lady Franklin from Russell Square to Van Diemenā€™s Land, and placed a John Rae memorial plaque in the High Arctic.

With his partner, artist Sheena Fraser McGoogan, he has rambled from Montreal and the Rockies to Sri Lanka, Singapore, and Malaysia. In autumn 2024, Ken will publish Shadows of Tyranny: Defending Democracy in an Age of Dictatorship.

Visit his website: www.kenmcgoogan.com