6 Jack Whyte
Jack Whyte lives very comfortably outside the CanLit establishment.
Having now sold over one million books—in Canada alone—he is his own
literary scene. His hugely popular Dream of Eagles series based on
the Arthurian legends, and his more recent Templar Trilogy, have
sold millions more copies worldwide. The eagerly awaited final volume of
the Templar series, Order in Chaos (Penguin Canada), was released
in 2009. Next up for the tireless Kelowna resident is a series on the
heroes of his homeland to be called The Guardians of Scotland. The
trilogy, set in the 14th century, features James “the Black” Douglas,
William Wallace and Robert the Bruce.
Since emigrating from Scotland in 1967, Jack Whyte has acquired a
varied and impressive CV. Before turning to fulltime writing he toured a
one-man show on Robert Burns, wrote a series of 90-minute variety shows
for CBC, and was a very successful advertising executive. It’s all in
his fascinating 2007 memoir, Forty Years in Canada.
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