David Adams Richards

Photo from Extraordinary Canadians

David Adams Richards has received wide acclaim for his large body of work. As part of the series, Extraordinary Canadians, he wrote a book about Lord Beaverbrook, the New Brunswick newspaper magnate who became a British Lord as well as a friend and adviser to Sir Winston Churchill.

Richards has been writer in residence at Mount Allison University, the University of New Brunswick, the University of Alberta and the University of Ottawa. Originally a New Brunswicker, he has lived in Toronto for the past few years.

He first became well-known for his Miramichi Trilogy. Nights Below Station Street (1988) won the Governor General's Literary Award and Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace (1990) won the CAA Award, and For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down (1993) won the Alden Knowlan Award for Excellence in the Literary Arts and the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Literary Award.
In 1992 Richards won the Canada-Australia Literary prize for his body of work. In 1998 this author won the Governor General's Award for non-fiction and in 2000, his novel Mercy Among the Children won the Giller. The year this novel was published, Ray Robinson interviewed Richards for Quill and Quire.

David Adams Richards is also known as a writer of screenplays, for which he has also won two Gemini awards. Truly an all-round writer, he has published two books of poetry as well.