Editing Farley Mowat (section)

==Literary career==

After serving in World War II, Mowat attended the [[University of Toronto]].<ref name="global obit">{{cite news|last=Kennedy|first=John R.|title=Canadian author Farley Mowat dies at 92|url=http://globalnews.ca/news/1316349/canadian-author-farley-mowat-dies-at-92/|access-date=May 8, 2014|newspaper=Global News|date=May 7, 2014}}</ref> Mowat's first book, ''[[People of the Deer]]'' (1952), was inspired by a field trip to the [[Canadian Arctic]] he made while studying at the University of Toronto. Mowat was outraged at the conditions endured by the [[Inuit]] living in [[Northern Canada]].  The book turned Mowat into a controversial, popular figure.<ref name=gm/>

Mowat became a McClelland and Stewart author when they published his book entitled ''The Regiment'' in 1955.<ref name="BoatFloat">{{citation|title=The Boat Who Wouldn't Float – The Happy Adventure of Farley Mowat and Jack McClelland |first=Donna |last=Thomson |institution=McMaster University}}</ref> Jack McClelland, known for his promotion of Canadian authors, became his lifelong friend as well as his publisher. Mowat's next book, the children's book ''[[Lost in the Barrens]]'' (1956), won a [[Governor General's Awards|Governor General's Award]].<ref name=ce/><ref name=CBC>{{cite news | url = http://www.cbc.ca/books/2014/05/remembering-farley-mowat.html |title = Remembering Farley Mowat | work = CBC Books | date =  7 May 2014 | access-date = May 9, 2014}}</ref>

In 1963, Mowat wrote a possibly fictionalised account of his experiences in the Canadian Arctic with [[Arctic wolf|Arctic wolves]] entitled ''[[Never Cry Wolf]]'' (1963).<ref name= Burgess/>

In 1985, Mowat started a book tour of the United States to promote ''Sea of Slaughter''.  He was denied entry by customs agents at [[Toronto Pearson International Airport|Pearson International Airport]] in Toronto, which was justified by laws that allowed American customs officials to deny entry to entrants they thought were "[[Communist sympathizer]]s". Believing gun lobbyists were behind his denial, he came forward with his suspicion. The law was overturned in 1990, and Mowat wrote about his experience in ''My Discovery of America'' (1985).<ref name="GaM obit">{{cite news|last=Martin|first=Sandra|title=Scarred by war, acclaimed author Farley Mowat spent his life trying to save animals, nature and First Nations|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/scarred-by-war-acclaimed-author-farley-mowat-spent-his-life-trying-to-save-animals-nature-and-first-nations/article18548467/?page=all|access-date=May 8, 2014|newspaper=The Globe and Mail|date=May 7, 2014}}</ref>

Mowat became very interested in [[Dian Fossey]], the American [[ethologist]] who studied gorillas and was brutally murdered in [[Rwanda]] in 1985. His biography of her was published in 1987, in Canada under the title ''Virunga: The Passion of Dian Fossey'', and in the United States as ''[[Woman in the Mists|Woman in the Mists: The Story of Dian Fossey and the Mountain Gorillas of Africa]]''—an allusion to Fossey's own recounting of her life and research ''[[Gorillas in the Mist]]'' (1983).

Many of Mowat's works are autobiographical, such as ''[[Owls in the Family]]'' (1962, about his childhood), ''The Boat Who Wouldn't Float'' (1969, one of three books about his time living in [[Newfoundland and Labrador|Newfoundland]]), and ''And No Birds Sang'' (1979, about his experience fighting in Italy in World War II).<ref name=ce/>

In 1965, ''[[Westviking]]'' was published, followed 30 years later by ''[[The Farfarers]]'', which suggests a people he called the Albans preceded the Norse to the High Arctic and the Labrador and Newfoundland coasts.