Jake MacDonald is a Canadian author who lives in Winnipeg

Winnipeg

Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of Manitoba, Canada, and is the primary municipality of the Winnipeg Capital Region, with more than half of Manitoba's population. It is located near the longitudinal centre of North America, at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers .The name...

, Manitoba

Manitoba

Manitoba is a Canadian prairie province with an area of . The province has over 110,000 lakes and has a largely continental climate because of its flat topography. Agriculture, mostly concentrated in the fertile southern and western parts of the province, is vital to the province's economy; other...

. Over twenty-five years he has produced eight books of both fiction and non-fiction and several hundred stories for many of Canada’s leading publications, including the Globe and Mail, Canadian Geographic, Macleans, Cottage Life, Canadian Business, and The Walrus. Some of his books have been recognized with national awards, (the memoir Houseboat Chronicles won three awards across the country, including the Writers Trust of Canada prize for best non-fiction book 2002.)

Works

• Indian River - 1981
• The Bridge Out of Town - 1986
• Two Tickets to Paradise - 1990
• Raised by the River - 1992
• Juliana and the Medicine Fish - 1997
• Houseboat Chronicles: Notes from a Life in Shield Country - 2002
• With the Boys: Field Notes on Being a Guy - 2005
• Grizzlyville: Adventures in Bear Country - 2009