Iain Lawrence (born 1955)[1] is a Canadian author for children and young adults.
[2] After school he worked for the Prince Rupert Daily News and other newspapers in northern British Columbia.
[2] A Chicago agent encouraged him to concentrate on children's fiction so he reworked one of his earlier books, The Wrecker, and sold it to Random House in 1994.
[15] Nine of Lawrence's books are Junior Library Guild selections: The Wreckers (1998),[16] Lord of the Nutcracker Men (2001),[17] B for Buster (2004),[18] The Convicts (2005),[19] The Cannibals (2006),[20] The Castaways (2008),[21] The Séance (2008),[22] The Skeleton Tree (2016),[23] and Deadman's Castle (2021).
[24] In 2007, the Bank Street College of Education included Gemini Summer on their list of the best children's books of the year.