TEN MILLION BOOKS : An introduction to Farley Mowat (1980)

  Farley Mowat was born on May 12, 1921 in Belleville, Ontario, Canada. He is known for The Snow Walker (2003), Never Cry Wolf (1983) and Magic Hour: Lost in the Barrens (1990). He was married to Claire Wheeler and Francis Thornhill. He died on May 6, 2014 in Port Hope, Ontario.

  He was awarded the O.C. (Officer of the Order of Canada) on June 22, 1981 for his services to Canadian Literature.

Port Hope, Ontario, Canada [June 2007]

  He wrote a regular column about birding for the Saskatoon newspaper from 1930 to 1933, when he was a preteen.

At 18, he joined army to fight in WWII. He spent three years overseas, serving in Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany. He returned to Canada in 1945, spending summers in the Arctic and winters studying at the University of Toronto.

Personal Quotes (2)

(on Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society) He's the nearest thing I've ever had to a hero. He's earned my admiration as a dedicated protector of all wildlife and a voice for the creatures who don't have one.

  In the end, my crusades have accomplished nothing. I haven't saved the wolf, the whales, the seals, primitive man or the outport people. All I've done is to document the suicidal tendencies of modern man. I'm sure I haven't altered the course of human events one iota. Things will change inevitably, but it's strictly a matter of the lottery of fate. It has nothing to do with man's intentions