Roy MacSkimming

Roy MacSkimming has published four novels and three works of non-fiction. His two historical novels, "Macdonald" and "Laurier in Love", delve with insight and passion into the private lives of Canada's first prime minister, John A. Macdonald, and first French-Canadian prime minister, Wilfrid Laurier. "Macdonald" was acclaimed by the Toronto Globe & Mail as "an engaging novel handled with imagination, sympathy and verve, making a hugely enjoyable read." About "Laurier in Love", the Vancouver Sun said "MacSkimming's prose places Laurier in some of the most erotically charged situations ever penned for a prime minister."

Roy MacSkimming's study of Canadian book publishing, "The Perilous Trade", was a finalist for the National Business Book Award and described in the Globe & Mail as "a brilliantly seductive cultural history of Canada" and "indispensable". MacSkimming has also written two books of hockey history, "Gordie: A Hockey Legend" ("an excellent biography of Gordie Howe": The Sporting News) and "Cold War: The Amazing Canada-Soviet Hockey Series of 1972."

MacSkimming is currently at work on "The Secret History of John A.", a novel based on Macdonald's little-known early life. He lives in Perth, Ontario.