Roy MacGregor

Roy MacGregor is an author, columnist and feature writer for The Globe and Mail. Before joining in 2002, he worked for the National Post, the Ottawa Citizen, Maclean's magazine, the Toronto Star and The Canadian Magazine. He has won numerous awards for his journalism, including two National Newspaper Awards, several National Magazine Awards and twice the ACTRA Award as the best television drama writer in the country.

He is also the author of nearly 40 books, 23 of them in the internationally-successful Screech Owls Mystery series for young readers. His adult books include A Life In the Bush, which won the Rutstrum Award as the best book on the wilderness published in North America between 1995 and 2000. His previous book, Home Team: Fathers, Sons and Hockey, was nominated for the Governor-General's Award in 1996. He has also written two novels, Canoe Lake and The Last Season.

In 2005 he was named an officer in the Order of Canada.