Don Gillmor is an award-winning Canadian novelist, journalist and children's book author. His new novel Breaking and Entering examines the life of a 50-year-old woman who deals with her mid-life crisis by breaking into houses. The New York Times called it “thrilling and relatable.”
His previous book, To the River (2018, Random House) explores his brother’s suicide. It won the 2019 Governor General’s Literary Award for non-fiction and was a CBC Best Books of 2019.
His novel Long Change (2015, Random House) examines the world of oil through the life and loves of one man; both stories are epic.
His previous novel, Mount Pleasant (2013, Random House), is a darkly comic meditation on privilege and debt set in contemporary Toronto, and his first novel, the critically acclaimed Kanata (2009, Penguin), dealt with the whole sweep of Canadian history. He is also the author of a two-volume history of Canada, Canada: A People’s History, and three other books of non-fiction, The Desire of Every Living Thing, Stratford Behind the Scenes, and I Swear by Apollo.
He has written nine books for children, two of which were nominated for a Governor General’s Award. His journalism and criticism have appeared in The Walrus, where he was a senior editor; Saturday Night and Toronto Life, where he was a contributing editor; and Rolling Stone, GQ, The Globe and Mail and The Toronto Star, among other publications. He has won 12 National Magazine Awards and numerous other honours. He lives in Toronto.