Born: 12-May-1921
Birthplace: Belleville, Ontario, Canada
Died: 6-May-2014
Location of death: Port Hope, Ontario, Canada
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Author

Nationality: Canada
Executive summary: Never Cry Wolf

Military service: Canadian Army (Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment, WWII, Sicily)

Father: Angus Mowat
Mother: Helen
Wife: (two sons)
Wife: Claire (m. 1965, until his death)

    University: University of Toronto (1949)

    Order of Canada 1981

    FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
    Eco-Pirate: The Story of Paul Watson (1-May-2011) · Himself

Author of books:
People of the Deer (1952, nonfiction)
Lost in the Barrens (1956, novel, juvenile)
The Dog Who Wouldn't Be (1957, memoir)
The Desperate People (1959, nonfiction)
Owls in the Family (1961, memoir)
The Regiment (1961, memoir)
The Black Joke (1962, novel)
Never Cry Wolf (1963, nonfiction)
Westviking: The Ancient Norse in Greenland and North America (1965, history)
The Curse of the Viking Grave (1966, novel)
The Rock Within the Sea (1968, memoir)
The Boat Who Wouldn't Float (1969, memoir)
A Whale for the Killing (1972)
And No Birds Sang (1979, memoir)
Sea of Slaughter (1984)
My Discovery of America (1985, memoir)
Virunga: The Passion of Dian Fossey (1987, biography)
Rescue the Earth: Conversations (1990)
My Father's Son (1992, memoir)
Born Naked (1993, memoir)
The Farfarers (1998)

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