Boy from Nowhere: A Life in Ninety-One Countries Contributor(s): Fotheringham, Allan (Author) |
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ISBN: 1459701682 ISBN-13: 9781459701687 Publisher: Dundurn Press OUR PRICE: $28.80 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2011 |
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BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Editors, Journalists, Publishers - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
Dewey: B |
Physical Information: 0.79" H x 6.33" W x 9.26" (1.14 lbs) 240 pages |
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Publisher Description: As one of Canada's pre-eminent newspaper and magazine journalists, Allan Fotheringham has met everybody from Bobby Kennedy and Pierre Trudeau to The Beatles and Nelson Mandela. Born in Hearne, Saskatchewan, in 1932, Allan Fotheringham has had a distinguished career. Dubbed Dr. Foth, Fotheringhamgraduated from the University of British Columbia andhas worked for numerous news organizations, including the Vancouver Sun, Southam News, The Financial Post, Sun Media, the Globe and Mail, and most notably as a long-time columnist for Maclean's. His career hastaken him to many places on almost every continent as a correspondent and allowed him to meet many renowned personalities, from Robert F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, and Brian Mulroney toThe Beatles, Pierre Trudeau, and Nelson Mandela.Forten years he was apanellist on the popular CBC-TV show Front Page Challenge, and he's won many awards, includingthe National Magazine Award for Humour, a National Newspaper Award for Column Writing, and the Bruce Hutchinson Life Achievement Award. Time once described Allan Fotheringham as Canada's most consistently controversial newspaper columnist ... a tangier critic of complacency has rarely appeared in a Canadian newspaper. |
Contributor Bio(s): Fotheringham, Allan: - Allan Fotheringham has been a journalist and columnist for nearly 50 years, first with the Vancouver Sun, for nearly three decades with Maclean's, and more recently with the Globe and Mail, the National Post, and Zoomer. He has published eight previous books, including Fotheringham's Fictionary of Facts & Follies and Malice in Blunderland. "Dr. Foth" lives in Toronto. |