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 seventeen books, among them six bestsellers about Arctic exploration. These include Fatal Passage, Lady Franklin's Revenge, Dead Reckoning, and Searching for Franklin: New Answers to the Great Arctic Mystery.
Ken's many honours include the University of British Columbia Medal for Biography, the Pierre Berton Award for History, the Writers' Trust Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize, the Canadian Authors' Association History Award, and a three-month fellowship at the University of Cambridge. He has won awards as an athlete, a public speaker, a literary journalist, and a university teacher of creative nonfiction.
Having grown up in a francophone town outside Montreal, Ken earned degrees in Toronto and Vancouver. He worked as a journalist for two decades, taught at universities in Toronto and Halifax, and survived a shipwreck off Dar es Salaam. He also chased the ghost of Lady Franklin from Russell Square to Van Diemen's Land and, with his friend Louie Kamookak, placed a John Rae memorial plaque in the High Arctic. In autumn 2024, he published Shadows of Tyranny: Defending Democracy in an Age of Dictatorship.
Visit his website: www.kenmcgoogan.com