Don Gillmor is a Canadian journalist, novelist, historian, and writer of children's books;[1] he is the recipient of many awards for his journalism and fiction.
Gillmor's writing has appeared in Saturday Night, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, Rolling Stone, GQ, National Geographic, Toronto Life and The Walrus, where he worked as senior editor.
[5] In 2014, he won a National Newspaper Award for an article[6] on baby boomers and suicide.
[7] Gillmor is the author of three works of fiction: Kanata (2009), a Canadian historical epic,[8] Mount Pleasant (2013), a comic novel about debt[9] and Long Change (2015), which explores the life of an oilman (Gillmor worked on an oil rig in the late 1970s[10]).
[13][14] In 2019 he won the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction for his book To the River: Losing My Brother.