Widely acclaimed for his magical weaving of fact and fiction, his masterful plotting and his gift for both description and character, Wayne Johnston\'s many novels include The Custodian of Paradise , The Navigator of New York and The Colony of Unrequited Dreams , which was a finalist for sixteen Canadian and international awards, including the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General\'s Literary Award for Fiction, and which won the New York Public Libraries Prize for Best Novel and was chosen by the Los Angeles Times as one of the Ten Best Books of the year.
Baltimore\'s Mansion , a memoir about his father and grandfather, won the inaugural Charles Taylor Prize for literary nonfiction..
Widely acclaimed for his magical weaving of fact and fiction, his masterful plotting and his gift for both description and character, Wayne Johnston\'s many novels include The Custodian of Paradise , The Navigator of New York and The Colony of Unrequited Dreams , which was a finalist for sixteen Canadian and international awards, including the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General\'s Literary Award for Fiction, and which won the New York Public Libraries Prize for Best Novel and was chosen by the Los Angeles Times as one of the Ten Best Books of the year
