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Farley McGill Mowat (1921-2014) was born in Belleville, Ontario. The author of more than forty books, he was a popular and distinguished naturalist and conservationist whose internationally acclaimed novels, books for young readers, and memoirs have been translated into fifty-two languages and have sold more than seventeen million copies. Mowat's oeuvre includes People of the Deer; Lost in the Barrens, a recipient of Canada's Governor General's Award; The Boat Who Wouldn't Float; A Whale for the Killing; The Snow Walker; and Virguga: The Passion of Dian Fossy. Mowat is most widely known for his 1963 book Never Cry Wolf, which recounts his adventures as a biologist on a solo mission in 1946 to study Arctic wolves in the Keewatin Barren Lands in northern Manitoba. The book is credited with changing the stereotypically negative perception of wolves as vicious killers. New York Times op-ed columnist Nicholas D. Kristof named Mowat's The Dog Who Wouldn't Be, first published in 1957, one of the best children's books of all time. Mowat served in World W

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Born	Farley McGill Mowat (1921-05-12)May 12, 1921 Belleville, Ontario, Canada
Died	May 6, 2014(2014-05-06) (aged 92) Cobourg, Ontario, Canada
Resting place	Port Hope, Ontario
Occupation	Author, soldier, environmentalist, naturalist, philanthropist
Language	English
Nationality	Canadian
Education	Biology
Alma mater	University of Toronto
Period	1952–2014
Genre	Memoir, Young adult fiction, Non-fiction
Subject	Environmentalism, Northern Canada
Notable works	Never Cry Wolf, People of the Deer, Lost in the Barrens, The Curse of the Viking Grave, The Grey Seas Under, Owls in the Family
Spouse	Frances (Thornhill) Mowat, Claire (Wheeler) Mowat
Children	Robert Mowat, David Mowat
Relatives	John Mowat, John Bower Mowat, John McDonald Mowat, Angus McGill Mowat, Sir Oliver Mowat

Farley McGill Mowat, OC (May 12, 1921 – May 6, 2014) was a Canadian writer and envi

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Farley Mowat

Born

in Belleville, Ontario, Canada

May 12, 1921

Died

May 06, 2014

Genre

Outdoors & Nature, History, Biographies & Memoirs

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Farley McGill Mowat was a conservationist and one of Canada's most widely-read authors.

Many of his most popular works have been memoirs of his childhood, his war service, and his work as a naturalist. His works have been translated into 52 languages and he has sold more than 14 million books.

Mowat studied biology at the University of Toronto. During a field trip to the Arctic, Mowat became outraged at the plight of the Ihalmiut, a Caribou Inuit band, which he attributed to misunderstanding by whites. His outrage led him to publish his first novel, People of the Deer (1952). This book made Mowat into a literary celebrity and was largely responsible for the shift in the Canadian government's Inuit policy: the government began shipping meat anFarley McGill Mowat was a conservationist and one of Canada's most widely-read authors.

Many of his most popular works have been memoirs of his childhood, his