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Ian Brown (born 1954 in Lachine, Quebec) is a Canadian journalist and author, winner of several national magazine and newspaper awards. Brown is currently the host of ''Human Edge'' and ''The View from Here'' on TVOntario, and has hosted programming for CBC Radio One, including ''Later the Same Day'', ''Talking Books'', and ''Sunday Morning''. He has also worked as a business writer at ''Maclean's'' and the ''Financial Post'', a feature reporter for ''The Globe and Mail'', and a freelance journalist for other magazines including ''Saturday Night''. He is an occasional contributor to the American public radio program ''This American Life''. Ian Brown was the editor of ''What I Meant to Say: The Private Lives of Men'' a 2006 collection of twenty-nine essays by prominent Canadian writers, including Greg Hollingshead, David MacFarlane, Don Gillmor, Bert Archer, and Brown himself, who asked his contributors to write on subjects that they'd like to discuss with women but had never been able to.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Sex and Silence )〕 Ian Brown has also published four books, including ''Freewheeling'' (1989) about the Billes family, owners of Canadian Tire, and ''Man Overboard''. ''The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Search for His Disabled Son.'', a book-length version of Brown's series of ''Globe and'' Mail features dealing with his son Walker's rare genetic disorder, Cardiofaciocutaneous Syndrome (CFC), was published in the fall of 2009. Ian Brown's newest book is ''Sixty: The Beginning of the End, or the End of the Beginning? A Diary of My Sixty-First Year'' (2015). Brown began keeping a diary with a Facebook post on the morning of February 4, 2014, his sixtieth birthday. As well as keeping a running tally on how he survived the year, Brown explored what being sixty means physically, psychologically and intellectually. In January 2010, Ian Brown won British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction for his book ''The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Search for His Disabled Son.'' The award is Canada's richest non-fiction prize and offers the winner a $40,000 prize. In February, 2010, the book won the Charles Taylor Prize, a $25,000 prize which recognizes excellence in literary non-fiction. Brown is married to ''Globe and Mail'' film critic Johanna Schneller. ==Bibliography== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ian Brown (journalist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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