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John Vaillant (born June 4, 1962) is an American-Canadian writer and journalist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, National Geographic, and Outside. He has written both non-fiction and fiction books.

John H. Vaillant
Vaillant at the 2015 Texas Book Festival
Born	June 4, 1962 Cambridge, Massachusetts
Occupation	Journalist
Nationality	American

Personal life

Vaillant was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts and has lived in Vancouver since 1998.[1] He is the son of Harvard psychologist George Eman Vaillant, and grandson to the famed anthropologist George Clapp Vaillant.

Writing career

His first book, The Golden Spruce,[2] dealt with the felling of the Golden Spruce or Kiidk'yaas on Haida Gwaii by Grant Hadwin.

His 2010 work, The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival is about a man-eating tiger incident that happened in the 1990s in Russia's Far Eastern Primorsky Krai, where most of the world's Amur tigers live. It is a mixture of investigative journalism, social history, geography and natural writing. It won a number of awards and was selected for the 2012 edition of CBC Radio's Canada Reads, defended by lawyer and television personality Anne-France Goldwater.

His next book was The Jaguar's Children (2015), a novel about an undocumented Mexican immigrant trapped inside the empty tank of a water truck that has been abandoned in the desert by human smugglers. The novel was a shortlisted nominee for the 2015 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.[3] The Jaguar's Children received positive reviews from the New York Times and NPR.[4][5]

Writing style

Vaillant is known for focusing on environmental issues - such as trees in the northwest, nearly-extinct tigers, and GMO corn in Mexico - and mixing that with stories about crime or violence.

Awards and honors

• 2005 Governor General's Award, The Golden Spruce
• 2005 Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize, The Golden Spruce
• 2010 British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, The Tiger[6]
• 2010 The Globe and Mail Best Book for Science 2010, The Tiger
• 2012 Nicolas Bouvier Prize in Saint Malo, France, The Tiger (French translation)
• 2014 Windham–Campbell Literature Prize in Nonfiction, achievement award valued at $150,000 the largest of its kind.[7]

Bibliography

Vaillant is the author of three books:

• The Jaguar's Children. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2015. ISBN 978-0544315495.
• The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. 2010. ISBN 978-0307268938.
• The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed. W. W. Norton & Company. 2005. ISBN 978-0393058871.

References

External links

• John Vaillant at Library of Congress Authorities, with 4 catalogue records

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