B.C. author James Mackinnon is shown at an awards luncheon in Toronto, Monday, Feb.27, 2006. Former Taylor Prize winner MacKinnon of Vancouver is on the short list again THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO/Tom Sandler
January 15, 2014 - 7:40 AM
TORONTO - Ottawa resident Charlotte Gray and Thomas King of Guelph, Ont., are among the finalists for the 2014 RBC Taylor Prize for excellence in non-fiction.
The award was previously called the Charles Taylor prize and is worth $25,000.
Gray is nominated for "The Massey Murder: A Maid, Her Master, and the Trial That Shocked a Country" while King is up for "The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America."
Rounding out the short list is Vancouver's J.B. MacKinnon for "The Once and Future World: Nature As It Was, As It Is, As It Could Be"; Afghanistan-based Globe and Mail reporter Graeme Smith for "The Dogs Are Eating Them Now: Our War in Afghanistan" and David Stouck of Vancouver for Arthur Erickson: An Architect's Life.
The short list was chosen from a long list of 12 titles.
In all, 124 Canadian-authored non-fiction books were submitted by 45 publishers. The winner will be announced March 10.
News from © The Canadian Press, 2014