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Stuart Douglas Trueman (6 November 1911 – 23 April 1995)[1] was a Canadian journalist and humorist, who won the Stephen Leacock Award in 1969 for his book You're Only as Old as You Act.[2]

Stuart Trueman
Born	(1911-11-06)November 6, 1911 Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
Died	April 23, 1995(1995-04-23) (aged 83) Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
Occupation	humorist, journalist
Nationality	Canadian
Period	1930s-1990s
Notable works	You're Only as Old as You Act
Spouse	Mildred Stiles

Born and raised in Saint John, New Brunswick, Trueman first joined the city's Telegraph-Journal newspaper after high school as a cartoonist and reporter, later becoming a sportswriter.[3] He became the paper's editor-in-chief in 1951, holding the position until his retirement in 1971,[3] and then continued to write a weekly column for the newspaper until 1993.[3] During his time with the Telegraph-Journal, he covered a visit to the city by Amelia Earhart the day before her solo trans-Atlantic flight in 1932,[4] bringing her a copy of the paper directly off the press before she left so that once she landed she could prove she had flown the whole way.[4] He was also credited with the original discovery of Moncton's Magnetic Hill.[3]

As a writer, Trueman published numerous books of both humour and regional history.[3] In addition to his Leacock Award win in 1969 for You're Only as Old as You Act, he was a shortlisted nominee for the award in 1983 for Don't Let Them Smell the Lobsters Cooking.[5]

He was married to Mildred Trueman (née Stiles),[6] with whom he also collaborated on two cookbooks, Favourite Recipes from Old New Brunswick Kitchens (1983) and Mildred Trueman’s New Brunswick Heritage Cookbook: With Age-Old Cures and Medications, Atlantic Fishermen’s Weather Portents and Superstitions (1986).[3]

He died at Saint John Regional Hospital on April 25, 1995.[2]

Works

• Cousin Elva (1955)
• The Ordeal of John Gyles: Being an Account of his Odd Adventures; Strange Deliverances, etc. as a Slave of the Maliseets (1966)
• You’re Only as Old as You Act (1968)
• An Intimate History of New Brunswick (1970)
• My Life as a Rose-Breasted Grosbeak (1972)
• The Fascinating World of New Brunswick (1973)
• Ghosts, Pirates and Treasure Trove: The Phantoms that Haunt New Brunswick (1975)
• The Wild Life I've Led (1976)
• Tall Tales and True Tales from Down East: Eerie Experiences, Heroic Exploits, Extraordinary Personalities, Ancient Legends and Folklore from New Brunswick and Elsewhere in the Maritimes (1979)
• The Colour of New Brunswick (1981)
• Don’t Let Them Smell the Lobsters Cooking: The Lighter Side of Growing Up in the Maritimes Long Ago (1982)
• Favourite Recipes from Old New Brunswick Kitchens (1983, with Mildred Trueman)
• Life’s Odd Moments (1984)
• Mildred Trueman’s New Brunswick Heritage Cookbook: With Age-Old Cures and Medications, Atlantic Fishermen’s Weather Portents and Superstitions (1986, with Mildred Trueman)
• Add Ten Years to Your Life: A Canadian Humorist Looks at Florida (1989)

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