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Place of Birth: Prince George, British Columbia, Canada
About Brian Fawcett
- Brian Fawcett (born May 13, 1944) is a Canadian writer and cultural analyst who lives in Toronto, Ontario. Fawcett was born and raised in Prince George, in northwest British Columbia, and graduated from Simon Fraser University as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow.
- Before becoming a full-time writer, he worked as an urban planner.
- In 2001, he co-founded (with Stan Persky) the website www.dooneyscafe.com (named after a restaurant on Toronto's Bloor Street West), which is described as "a news service" and to which he is a regular contributor.
- He has also taught cultural literacy in maximum security prisons.
- In 2003 Virtual Clearcut: Or, the Way Things Are in My Hometown won the Pearson Writers’ Trust Non-Fiction Prize (in 2011 Hilary Weston began sponsoring the Writers' Trust Prize).
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