Ian Brown

Ian Brown writes immersive, deeply reported, narratively driven feature stories about a wide variety of subjects for Canada’s The Globe and Mail. He is a contributor to This American Life and Morningside and has been the host of three CBC radio programs: Later the Same Day, Talking Books, and Sunday Morning. Ian Brown is also the award-winning author of The Boy in the Moon (one of The New York Times 10 best books of the year), Sixty and Seventy. He lives in Toronto.


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Sixty
A Diary of My Sixty-First Year: The Beginning of the End, or the End of the Beginning?
by Ian Brown
Hardcover | $24.95 US

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 →

Sixty: A Diary
My Year of Aging Semi-Gracefully
by Ian Brown
Paperback | $15.95 US

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 →

Seventy
A Diary of My Seventieth Year (Definitely the Beginning of the End)
by Ian Brown
Hardcover | $30.00 US

In Seventy, Ian Brown takes us on a brutally honest, darkly humorous journey through the realities of aging. Seventy follows Brown’s candid reflections in Sixty (“charming, thoughtful and edifying company”—The New York Times), in which decade he felt like an … Continue reading →