Brian Fawcett is the author of more than twenty books, including Cambodia: A Book for People Who Find Television Too Slow, The Secret Journals of Alexander Mackenzie, and Virtual Clearcut: Or, The Way Things Are In My Home Town. He is a past editor of Books in Canada, a former columnist for the Globe and Mail, has written articles and reviews for most of Canada's major newspapers and magazines, and is a founding editor of the internationallyfollowed Internet news service, www.dooneyscafe.com. Fawcett was born and raised in Prince George, B.C. and now lives in Toronto.