John Wilson

John Alexander Wilson (born August 3, 1951, in Edinburgh, Scotland) is a Canadian author of historical fiction and non-fiction. He is the author of over 30 books, 300 articles and essays, and 30 poems.

Biography Wilson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on August 3, 1951, to James Annan and Evelyn Victoria Marguerite Wilson.

In 1975, Wilson received a Bachelor of Science with honours in geology from the University of St Andrews.

In 2017, the Chicago Public Library named A Soldier's Sketchbook one of the best Informational Books for Older Readers of the year. Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize Finalist 2002 Righting Wrongs Norma Fleck Award Finalist

Discovering the Arctic Norma Fleck Award Finalist

Geoffrey Bilson Award Finalist Red Goodwin Forest of Reading Red Maple Award Finalist Where Soldiers Lie Geoffrey Bilson Award Finalist 2016 Wings of War Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award Nominee Publications Fiction Across Frozen Seas (1997) Adrift in Time (2003) Dancing Elephants and Floating Continents: The Story of Canada Beneath Your Feet (2003) Ghosts of James Bay (2006) Red Goodwin (2006) The Alchemist's Dream (2007) Lost Cause (2012) The Ruined City (2018) The Third Act (2018)

Caught in Conflict collection

Lost in Spain (1999) And in the Morning... (2002) Flames of the Tiger (2003) The Flags of War (2004) Battle Scars (2005) Four Steps to Death (2005) Where Soldiers Lie (2007) Germania (2008) Death on the River (2009)

Desert Legends trilogy

Written in Blood (2010) Ghost Moon (2011) Victorio's War (2012)

Heretic's Secret trilogy

Crusade / Heretic (2009) Quest / Grail (2010) Rebirth (2013)

I Am Canada books

Shot at Dawn: World War I, Allan McBride, France, 1917 (2011) Graves of Ice (2014)

Steve series

The Missing Skull (2016) Lost Cause (2012) Broken Arrow (2014)

Stolen duo

Stolen (2013) Bones (2014)

Tales of War trilogy

Wings of War (2014) Dark Terror (2015) A Dangerous Game (2016)

Weet trilogy

Weet (1995) Weet's Quest (1997) Weet Alone (1999)

Non-fiction Norman Bethune: A Life of Passionate Conviction (1999) Righting Wrongs: The Story of Norman Bethune (2001) Discovering the Arctic: The Story of John Rae (2003) Desperate Glory: The Story of WWI (2008) Bitter Ashes: The Story of WWII (2009) Ghost Mountains and Vanished Oceans: North America from Birth to Middle Age (2009) Failed Hope: The Story of the Lost Peace (2012) The Final Alchemy: A Novel of Murder, Magic and the Search for the Northwest Passage (2012) John Franklin: Traveller on Undiscovered Seas Lands of Lost Content (2020) A Man Exact and Truthful: John Rae and the Northwest Passage (2022) The Journal of James Fitzjames (2022)

Poetry

Love, Death and Nonsense: A Diversity of Verse (2022)