
Ian Brown is an author and a feature writer for The Globe and Mail whose work has won many awards. His book, Sixty: A Diary of My Sixty-First Year, was a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Non-Fiction as well as for the RBC Taylor Prize. He is also the author of The Boy in the Moon: A Father’s Search for His Disabled Son, which was one of The New York Times’s 10 Best Books of the Year; it also won the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction, the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction and the Trillium Book Award. His previous books include Freewheeling, which won Canada’s National Business Book Award, and the provocative examination of modern masculinity, Man Overboard. He lives in Toronto.

by Ian Brown
As Ian Brown’s sixtieth birthday loomed, every moment seemed to present a choice: Confront, or deny, the biological fact that the end was now closer than the beginning. True, he was beginning to notice memory lapses, creaking knees, and a … Continue reading →

by Ian Brown
As acclaimed journalist and author Ian Brown’s sixtieth birthday loomed, every moment seemed to present a choice: Confront, or deny, the biological fact that the end was now closer than the beginning. Brown chose instead to notice every moment—to try … Continue reading →

by Ian Brown
An acclaimed journalist and chronicler of contemporary life, seventy-year-old Ian Brown is not going gently into his eighth decade. The outlook is more perilous than it was at age sixty, but Brown is determined—however hopelessly—not to let time get the … Continue reading →

