John H. Vaillant: Festival Opening Reception

John Valliant’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.

John's most recent book Fire Weather, is a 2024 Pulitzer Prize finalist, one of the New York Times' top ten book of the year, and finalist for the National Book Award in Nonfiction! Fire Weather is a stunning account of a colossal wildfire and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind.

Vaillant has received the Governor General’s Literary Award, British Columbia’s National Award for Canadian Nonfiction, 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.

For more about John Vaillant, visit: https://twitter.com/JohnVaillant