Kristian Gravenor is a Montreal

Montreal

Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

 news reporter and city columnist who has written over a thousand articles about the city for a variety of magazines and newspapers, starting with a column in the Westmount Examiner

Westmount Examiner

The Westmount Examiner is a weekly English language newspaper serving Westmount, Quebec, Canada. It has a circulation of 11,000, with a policy of covering news only from within Westmount. It has been available online since December 14th, 2009.-History:...

 which he wrote at age 16. He has since written a variety of news stories for magazines ranging from Canadian Business

Canadian Business

Canadian Business is the longest-publishing business magazine in Canada. It was founded in 1928 as The Commerce of the Nation, the organ of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. The magazine was renamed Canadian Business in 1933...

 to Saturday Night

Saturday Night (magazine)

Saturday Night was a Canadian general interest magazine. It was founded in Toronto, Ontario in 1887.The publication was first established as a weekly broadsheet newspaper about public affairs and the arts, which was later expanded into a general interest magazine. The editor, Edmund E. Sheppard,...

. He spent several years writing news and city columns for the Montreal Mirror

Montreal Mirror

Montreal Mirror is a free English language alternative newsweekly based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada with a circulation of 70,000, and reaches a quarter of a million readers per week. It is published by Communications Gratte-Ciel Ltée....

 where his articles shed light on often sensational yet little-known stories about Montreal, including the reputed Montreal demises of Veronica Lake

Veronica Lake

Veronica Lake was an American film actress and pin-up model. She received both popular and critical acclaim, most notably for her role in Sullivan's Travels and her femme fatale roles in film noir with Alan Ladd during the 1940s, and was well-known for her peek-a-boo hairstyle...

 and Maurice Duplessis

Maurice Duplessis

Maurice Le Noblet Duplessis served as the 16th Premier of the Canadian province of Quebec from 1936 to 1939 and 1944 to 1959. A founder and leader of the highly conservative Union Nationale party, he rose to power after exposing the misconduct and patronage of Liberal Premier Louis-Alexandre...

,http://www.montrealmirror.com/ARCHIVES/2001/051701/news7.html
the trial of three women accused of beating rock star Serge Fiori

Serge Fiori

Serge Fiori was the lead vocalist and guitarist for Harmonium, an influential progressive rock band from Quebec. After Harmonium broke up he pursued a minor solo career.- Biography :...

http://www.montrealmirror.com/ARCHIVES/1999/012899/cover.html and the ongoing tragedy of the Duplessis Orphans

Duplessis Orphans

The Duplessis Orphans were the victims of a scheme in which several thousand orphaned children were falsely certified as mentally ill by the government of the province of Quebec, Canada, and confined to psychiatric institutions.-Overview:...

.http://www.montrealmirror.com/ARCHIVES/2000/112300/kristian.html

In 2002 he co-authored with his brother JD Gravenor the Montreal guidebook Montreal: The Unknown City (2002)http://www.amazon.com/dp/1551521199/

He has also written extensively about Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan , officially the Republic of Azerbaijan is the largest country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia to the west, and Iran to...

, a country he has visited and studied.

Gravenor has a BA from McGill University

McGill University

Mohammed Fathy is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university bears the name of James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Glasgow, Scotland, whose bequest formed the beginning of the university...

 and an MA from Concordia University

Concordia University

Concordia University is a comprehensive Canadian public university located in Montreal, Quebec, one of the two universities in the city where English is the primary language of instruction...

 where he specialized in studying the rise of fascism in Europe. He is the son of Colin Gravenor

Colin Gravenor

Colin Gravenor was a Canadian real-estate developer and public-relations pioneer. He was born May 30, 1910, in Bridgwater, England, and moved with his parents and a brother and sister to Winnipeg, Canada, later to be abandoned by his father, Percival, and raised by his mother.Gravenor moved to...

and Patricia Roberts.

External links

One of many articles Gravenor has written about Azerbaijan.http://www.dominionpaper.ca/author/kristian_gravenor
Article Gravenor wrote about Veronica Lake's connection to Montreal.http://www.montrealmirror.com/ARCHIVES/2001/051701/news7.html
Information concerning the book Gravenor co-authored.http://www.amazon.com/dp/1551521199