Canada’s “most consistently controversial newspaper columnist”, who wrote for nearly three decades with MacLean’s, and is the author of eight books, Allan Fotheringham, will read from his newest book, Boy From Nowhere – A Life n Ninety-One Countries.
The title of the book is explained by the author as, “Because I came from nowhere, a tiny Saskatchewan town that was so small we couldn’t afford a village idiot. Everyone had to take turns. Born in Hearne, Saskatchewan (where the locals were called ‘Hernias’), in 1932, Allan Fotheringham’s
career has taken him to almost every continent as a correspondent and allowed him to meet everyone from Bobby Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, and Brian Mulroney to the Beatles, Nelson Mandela, and Pierre Trudeau. For 10 years he was a panelist on the popular CBC-TV show Front Page Challenge, and he’s won many awards, inducing the National Magazine Award for Humour, a National Newspaper Award for Column Writing, and the Bruce Hutchison Life Achievement Award.
He graduated from the University of British Columbia and has worked for numerous news organizations, including the Vancouver Sun, Southam News, The Financial Post, Sun Media, and most notably as a long-time columnist for Maclean’s.
Boy From Nowhere describes the award-winning columnist’s life and career, with wry commentary, celebrity names of the era, and nostalgia for the early days of journalism. “Life is a collection of memories” he writes, ” they pile up, connect together, disconnect and make in a scrambly way what life is about. This is my ninth book. This book took my entire life to research as it is my memoirs. It was a work in progress.” The author, known as,“Dr. Foth,” lives in Toronto.
Other authors to appear in the 2012 festival line-up will include the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize winner, author Esi Edugyan.
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