John Vaillant

Canadian author — author of The Tiger, The Golden Spruce, and Fire Weather — who writes narrative nonfiction about humans at the extremes of the natural world — among the most celebrated Canadian nonfiction writers.

Creates ecological narrative nonfiction — Vaillant's method (using a specific dramatic encounter between humans and the natural world to examine ecology, culture, and human nature) is the most sophisticated approach in the narrative nonfiction natural history genre.