Bill Swan (writer)

Bill Swan (born January 25, 1939) is a Canadian children's author living in Orillia, Ontario. He writes full time, including work as a communication consultant.

Bill Swan
Born (1939-01-25) January 25, 1939
Bright, Ontario, Canada
OccupationAuthor, journalist, educator
GenreChildren's Literature

His book on the Steven Truscott conviction for murder was winner of the Ontario Library Association Red Maple Award for non-fiction, and was one of five children's non-fiction books in Canada nominated for the Norma Fleck Award for Children's non-fiction in 2013.

 He is contributing editor to COLLEGE ADMINISTRATOR magazine, published by the Ontario College Administrative Staff Association. From 1971 until taking early retirement in 1996 he was a college administrator and journalism professor at Durham College in Oshawa, Ontario. He was editor of the Woodstock Sentinel-Review in the late sixties, and from 1985 to 1995 wrote a sometimes humorous column for the now-defunct Whitby Free Press. .[1][2] He spent one year at  Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario.

Works
  • Fast Finish - 1998—ISBN 1-55028-640-4
  • Mud Run - 2003—ISBN 1-55028-786-9
  • Off Track! - 2003—ISBN 1-55028-806-7
  • Corner Kick - 2004—ISBN 1-55028-817-2
  • Deflection - 2004—ISBN 978-1-55028-852-0
  • Mud Happens - 2006—ISBN 978-1-55028-899-5
  • Road Rage - 2006—ISBN 978-1-55028-916-9
  • The Enforcer - 2007—ISBN 978-1-55028-979-4
  • Man-to-Man - 2009
  • REAL JUSTICE: Fourteen and Sentenced to Death - 2012
  • REAL JUSTICE: Convicted for Being Mi'kmaq - : 2013
  • REAL JUSTICE: Jailed for Life for Being Black - : 2014

References
  1. "Bill Swan Books, Author Biography, and Reading Level | Scholastic". www.scholastic.com. Retrieved 2020-01-05.
  2. "Bill Swan". Sports Stories. Retrieved 2020-01-05.
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