Brian Fawcett

Brian Fawcett (May 13, 1944 – February 27, 2022) was a Canadian writer and cultural analyst. He was awarded the Pearson Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize in 2003 for his book Virtual Clearcut, or The Way Things Are in My Hometown. He was also nominated for the Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence in 2012 for Human Happiness.

Early life Fawcett was born in Prince George, British Columbia, on May 13, 1944. His father, Hartley, was a soft drink salesman in Alberta who moved to Prince George during the late 1930s to establish his own company; his mother was Rita Surry. who influenced his writings. Fawcett graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1969 and was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow for the 1969–1970 academic year. Before becoming a full-time writer, he worked as an urban planner and community organizer in Metro Vancouver until 1985. He also taught English to inmates in Matsqui Institution. He authored seven books of poetry during this time. He later published his first collection of short stories in 1982, titled My Career with the Leafs and Other Stories, in which he recounted childhood memories of growing up in Prince George. |group=upper-alpha with Fawcett receiving C$15,000 as a result.

Human Happiness was published in 2012 and was nominated for the Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence. Fawcett released his final major book the following year, titled The Last of the Lumbermen. It detailed a celebrated hockey team in Prince George during the 1950s and 1960s, and became one of his most eminent works. Fawcett was working on two books at the time of his death in 2022, which are scheduled to be published posthumously. They were high school sweethearts and later studied at SFU together. After moving to Toronto, Fawcett married Leanna Crouch, who was a producer of Imprint. He was later in a domestic partnership with Fran Piccaluga until his death. He had another child, Max. My Career with the Leafs and Other Stories (1982) Capital Tales (1984) The Secret Journal of Alexander Mackenzie (1985) Cambodia: A Book for People Who Find Television Too Slow (1986) Public Eye: An Investigation Into the Disappearance of the World (1990) Gender Wars: A Novel and Some Conversation About Sex and Gender (1994) The Last of the Lumbermen (2013) Friends (1971) Permanent Relationships (1975) The Second Life (1976) Creatures of State (1977) Tristram's Book (1981) Aggressive Transport (1982)

Non-fiction Unusual Circumstances, Interesting Times and Other Impolite Interventions (1991) The Compact Garden: Discovering the Pleasures of Planting in a Small Space (1992) The Disbeliever's Dictionary: A Completely Disrespectful Lexicon of Canada Today (1997) Virtual Clearcut, or The Way Things Are in My Hometown (2003) Local Matters: A Defence of Dooney's Café and other Non-Globalized Places, People, and Ideas (2003) Human Happiness (2011)