Born in Vancouver on March 3, 1913, Faulknor had been a bank clerk, mill worker, artillery gunner, army-marine diesel engineer, student-veteran at UBC, provincial land inspector, freelance newspaper columnist, associate editor of Country Guide magazine, land appraiser and member of the Alberta Land Compensation Board, in that order. He authored two adult books, six novels for juveniles including the White Calf, winner of the Little Brown Award, and many short stories. He received the Alberta Culture Award for best nonfiction book by an Alberta author published in 1976 for Pen and Plow and the Vicky Metcalf Award in 1979 for the same book. At the age of 86, he quit his writing career to pursue painting.

He died in Calgary, September 24, 2009.

Selected Publications:

Johhny Eagleclaw. Edmonton: LeBel, 1982.
Pen & Plow. Winnipeg: Public, 1976.
The Smoke Horse. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1968; also London, UK: Dent, 1968.
The White Peril. Boston & Toronto: Litte, Brown, 1966; also London, UK: Dent, 1968.
The White Calf. Boston & Toronto: Litte, Brown, 1965; also London, UK: Dent, 1966; Richmond Hill, Ontario: Scholastic, 1973

[BCBW 2003]