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J.B. MacKinnon
Canadian
Publisher: Penguin Random House
J.B. MacKinnon is the author or co-author of five books of non-fiction. An award-winning journalist, his work has appeared in such publications as the New Yorker, National Geographic and the Atlantic, as well as the Best American Science and Nature Writing anthologies. He is an adjunct professor of journalism at UBC, where he teaches feature writing.
MacKinnon’s latest book is The Day the World Stops Shopping. Previous works include The Once and Future World, a bestseller about rewilding the natural world; The 100-Mile Diet (with Alisa Smith); and Dead Man in Paradise, which won the Charles Taylor Prize. He lives in Vancouver.