Brian is an award-winning and best-selling author of six critically acclaimed narrative non-fiction books about the colourful personalities of Western Canada’s past. One of his titles, Romancing the Rockies, won him the inaugural Dave Greber Freelance Writers Award. Another title, Scoundrels and Scallywags, topped the regional best-seller charts for more than eighteen months and was short-listed for the prestigious Grant MacEwan Author’s Award. Brian’s latest title, The Good Steward: The Ernest C. Manning Story, is the long-awaited first in-depth biography of the radio preacher who became Alberta’s longest-serving premier. His other books include the first biography of renowned Canadian historian James H. Gray, and the first biography of the celebrated nineteenth century Irish folk poet Mary O’Leary, which was nominated for the Irish Times Literary Prize. A former staff writer with the Calgary Herald, Brian has written freelance articles and columns for magazines and newspapers across the United States and Canada, including the New York Times, Globe and Mail and Toronto Star. He serves on the National Council of The Writers’ Union of Canada.