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Michael Harris is the author of All We Want: Building the Life We Cannot Buy (Doubleday Canada, 2021). His previous books – Solitude and The End of Absence – were both national bestsellers and are published in a dozen languages. He has won the Governor General’s Literary Award and his books have been nominated for the RBC Taylor Prize, the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, the Chautauqua Prize, and the CBC Bookie Award. Michael’s essays on media, the arts, and civil liberties, appear in Esquire, The Washington Post, Wired, Salon, The Globe and Mail, and dozens of other publications. Michael also writes the tech podcast Command Line Heroes, which has been downloaded millions of times and was honoured at both the Webby Awards and the Shorty Awards.

He is a faculty member in the Literary Journalism program at the Banff Centre. Michael Harris lives with his husband, Kenny Park, in Vancouver.

PHOTO BY HUDSON HAYDEN.

BOOKS

All We Want: Building the Life We Cannot Buy (Doubleday, 2021) $26 9780385695206

Solitude: A Singular Life in a Crowded World (Doubleday, 2017) $19.95 978-0385686044

The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We've Lost in a World of Constant Connection (HarperCollins, 2014) $16 978-1443426275

[BCBW 2021]