A. J. B. Johnston

A. J. B. Johnston is a Canadian historian and novelist. For John's award-winning writing on French colonial history in Atlantic Canada, France made him a chevalier of its Ordre des Palmes Académiques. To date, he has authored or co-authored 16 history books. Most are about the 18th century, but he also wrote one about a 1960s rock ‘n’ roll band popular across the Maritime provinces of Canada.

John's first foray into fiction was the three Thomas Pichon Novels, which explore ambition, longing and betrayal in 18th-century France and England. In 2023, he released the YA novel, INTO THE WIND, a 21st-century take on the Acadian Deportation. Another novel is the coming-of-age story SOMETHING TRUE. The latter is a biographical fiction of Katharine McLennan, who grew up on Cape Breton Island and served in hospitals in France during the First World War.

When not writing fiction or history, John often develops story-lines and scripts for museum exhibits.

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