Kenneth McGoogan (born 1947)[1] is the Canadian author of fifteen books, including Flight of the Highlanders, Dead Reckoning, 50 Canadians Who Changed the World, How the Scots Invented Canada, and four biographical narratives focusing on northern exploration and published internationally: Fatal Passage (John Rae), Ancient Mariner (Samuel Hearne), Lady Franklin's Revenge (Jane Franklin), and Race to the Polar Sea (Elisha Kent Kane).
He served as chair of the Public Lending Right Commission, sails as a lecturer with Adventure Canada, and writes frequently for Canadian Geographic, Celtic Life International, and the Globe and Mail.
Race to the Polar Sea: The Heroic Adventures of Elisha Kent Kane, 2008 Lady Franklin's Revenge: A True Story of Ambition, Obsession and the Remaking of Arctic History, 2005.
Fatal Passage: The Untold Story of John Rae, the Arctic Adventurer Who Discovered the Fate of Franklin, 2001.
Le Fantôme de Kerouac) Canada's Undeclared War: Fighting Words from the Literary Trenches, 1991.