John Vaillant

Episode 523 of the Past Forward podcast, hosted by Past Forward, titled "John Vaillant" was published on January 29, 2025 and runs 38 minutes.

January 29, 2025 ·38m · Past Forward

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John Vaillant’s acclaimed, award-winning nonfiction books, The Golden Spruce and The Tiger, were national bestsellers. His debut novel, The Jaguar’s Children, was a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the International Dublin Literary Award. Vaillant has received the Governor General’s Literary Award, British Columbia’s National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize, and the Pearson Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction. He has written for, among others, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, National Geographic, and The Walrus. He lives in Vancouver.

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Produced with Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at Chapman University with support from the Orange County Community Foundation.

Guest: John Vaillant
Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels
Produced by: Past Forward
Date recorded: December 11, 2024

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