Richard Somerset Mackie

Richard Somerset Mackie, PhD, is a freelance historian and biographer who lives in Vancouver. Two of his books, Trading Beyond the Mountains (1997) and Island Timber (2000), won the Lieutenant-Governor's Prize, and Island Timber was short-listed for the Haig-Brown Prize in 2001.

His most recent book, Mountain Timber (2009), was on the BC Bestseller list for 32 weeks. Mackie is now working on a personal memoir set in the 1970s, a biography of Comox environmentalist Melda Buchanan, and the third in his series of logging and social history books for Sono Nis, Pacific Timber. rsmackie.com

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