Boy from Nowhere: A Life in Ninety-One Countries

Born in Hearne, Saskatchewan, in 1932, Allan Fotheringham has had a distinguished career. Dubbed ＂Dr. Foth,＂ Fotheringham graduated from the University of British Columbia and has worked for numerous news organizations, including the Vancouver Sun, Southam News, The Financial Post, Sun Media, the Globe and Mail, and most notably as a long-time columnist for Maclean’s.

His career has taken him to many places on almost every continent as a correspondent and allowed him to meet many renowned personalities, from Robert F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, and Brian Mulroney to The Beatles, Pierre Trudeau, and Nelson Mandela. For ten years he was a panellist on the popular CBC-TV show Front Page Challenge, and he’s won many awards, including the National Magazine Award for Humour, a National Newspaper Award for Column Writing, and the Bruce Hutchinson Life Achievement Award.

Time once described Allan Fotheringham as ＂Canada’s most consistently controversial newspaper columnist ... a tangier critic of complacency has rarely appeared in a Canadian newspaper.＂

Allan Fotheringham has been a journalist and columnist for nearly fifty years, first with the Vancouver Sun, for nearly three decades with Maclean’s, and more recently with the Globe and Mail, the National Post, and Zoomer. He has published eight previous books, including Fotheringham’s Fictionary of Facts & Follies and Malice in Blunderland. ＂Dr. Foth＂ lives in Toronto.