Ian Brown (born 1954 in Lachine,

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) is a Canadian journalist and author, winner of several national magazine and newspaper awards. Brown is currently the host of '' Human Edge'' and '' The View from Here'' on

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, and has hosted programming for

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, including ''Later the Same Day'', '' Talking Books'', and '' Sunday Morning''. He has also worked as a business writer at ''

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'' and the ''

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'', a feature reporter for ''

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'', and a freelance journalist for other magazines including '' Saturday Night''. He is an occasional contributor to the

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''. Ian Brown was the editor of ''What I Meant to Say: The Private Lives of Men'' a 2006 collection of twenty-nine essays by prominent Canadian writers, including

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, and Brown himself, who asked his contributors to write on subjects that they'd like to discuss with women but had never been able to. Ian Brown has also published four books, including ''Freewheeling'' (1989) about the Billes family, owners of

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, and ''Man Overboard''. ''The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Search for His Disabled Son.'', a book-length version of Brown's series of ''Globe and'' Mail features dealing with his son Walker's rare genetic disorder,

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(CFC), was published in the fall of 2009. Ian Brown's newest book is ''Sixty: The Beginning of the End, or the End of the Beginning? A Diary of My Sixty-First Year'' (2015). Brown began keeping a diary with a Facebook post on the morning of February 4, 2014, his sixtieth birthday. As well as keeping a running tally on how he survived the year, Brown explored what being sixty means physically, psychologically and intellectually. In January 2010, Ian Brown won

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, a $25,000 prize which recognizes excellence in literary non-fiction. Brown is married to ''Globe and Mail'' film critic

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Bibliography

Non-fiction

* ''Freewheeling: The Feuds, Broods, and Outrageous Fortunes of the Billes Family and Canada's Favorite Company'' (1989) * ''Man Overboard: True adventures with North American Men '' (1993) * ''What I Meant to Say: The Private Lives of Men'' (editor) (2006) * ''The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Search for His Disabled Son'' (2009) * ''Sixty: The Beginning of the End, or the End of the Beginning? A Diary of My Sixty-First Year'' (2015)

References

External links

The Boy in the Moon, ''Globe and Mail''Talking Books, CBC RadioCharles Taylor Prize citation for The Boy in the MoonMacmillan Speakers Bureau Profile
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