Name Mick Lowe | Role Author | |
Awards Arthur Ellis Awards for Best True Crime Book Books The Raids: The Nickel Range Tri, The Insatiable Maw: The, Conspiracy of Brothers: A True St, Premature Bonanza: Standoff, One Woman Army: Th | ||
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Mick (Michael) Ellenwood Lowe is an award-winning author, journalist, and writer based in Sudbury, Ontario, whose work has appeared in a diverse range of Canadian publications including Maclean's, Canadian Business, Canadian Lawyer, The Globe and Mail, the Financial Post Magazine and Northern Ontario Business.
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Born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1947 to Jack and Grace (Ellenwood) Lowe, he moved to Canada in the late 1960s.
Lowe has worked as a staff writer at the Lincoln Daily Star (1967–68), staff writer and columnist at the Daily Nebraskan (1966–68), staff writer at The Georgia Straight (Vancouver) (1970–72), co-founder of The Grape (Western Voice) (Vancouver) (1972), editor at The Gauntlet (1973–74), freelance correspondent for The Globe and Mail (1974-1988), staff reporter and producer of Morning North at CBCS-FM (1977–78), and a lecturer in journalism at Cambrian College (1988).
He followed his first non-fiction book, “Conspiracy of Brothers,” which was a national bestseller and winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Best NonFiction Crime Book in 1989, with a biography of prisoner rights advocate Claire Culhane, “One Woman Army: The Life of Claire Culhane,” and then a book on the rush to exploit the Voisey’s Bay nickel deposit, “Premature Bonanza: Standoff at Voisey’s Bay.”
In 2008, he suffered a stroke that interrupted his writing life, among other things. In early 2012, he reignited his career with a 25th anniversary re-release of “Conspiracy of Brothers.”
Soon after, Mick began a new chapter: writing a fictional series about Sudbury’s mining history called the Nickel Range Trilogy.
The first book in the series, “The Raids,” is set in 1963, during a particularly violent time in Sudbury’s history: the Steelworkers’ raids on the then-powerful Mine Mill union.
The second book, “The Insatiable Maw,” is set in 1968, and is about health and safety concerns associated with the Copper Cliff Smelter.
The 1978-1979 Steelworkers strike is the subject of Mick’s latest novel, “Wintersong.” It’s the third and final volume in the Nickel Range Trilogy fiction series.