Friday, September 21 to Sunday, September 23, 2012
Click the alphabet on the left to view author bios by last name.
Over the years, The Word On The Street Vancouver has played host to all manner of authors. We are proud to welcome more than 100 authors, illustrators and panelists for the 2011 festival, including:
Charlotte Gill | Evelyn Lau
Georgia Nicols | Gurjinder Basran
John Furlong | John Vaillant
Richard Wagamese | Timothy Taylor
John Vaillant is the author of The Golden Spruce, which won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction. He has also written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic and The Walrus. The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival has won BC’s National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction,...
John Vaillant is at the Authors Tent at 3:00
Vikki VanSickle holds an MA in Children’s Literature from UBC and has extensive experience working with children at theatre day camps. Her first novel, Words That Start With B, was nominated for the CBA Libris Children’s Book of the Year Award. Love Is a Four-Letter Word picks up one year following the conclusion...
Vikki VanSickle is at the Kids Tent at 11:00
