Farley Mowat Biography

Never Cry Wolf About the Author

Farley Mowat was bom on May 12, 1921, in Belleville, Ontario, Canada.

He joined the military in World War II, leaving the University of Toronto before completing his studies. After the war, he spent two years exploring in the Arctic before returning to the university and taking his degree in 1949. He has devoted himself to writing as a full-time occupation since 1950.

Mowat's first book, People of the Deer (1952), served as a bitter indictment of the inept governmental bureaucracy and misdirected missionary fervor that nearly drove an Eskimo tribe to extinction. Accused of misrepresenting the facts, Mowat wrote a more evenly measured and carefully documented treatment of the inland Eskimo's plight entitled The Desperate People (1959).

Much of Mowat's work is the direct result of his adventures and experiences. For example, Never Cry Wolf details his encounters with wolves in the Northwest...
(read more)