TIM FALCONER is the author of six non-fiction books. His latest is Windfall: Viola MacMillan and Her Notorious Mining Scandal. A prospector and mine developer, MacMillan had it all: success, money and respect. Influence, even. But in 1964, after three decades in the mining industry, one of the most fascinating women in Canadian business history was the central character in one of the country’s most famous stock scandals.
Falconer’s previous books are:
• Klondikers: Dawson City’s Stanley Cup Challenge and How a Nation Fell in Love with Hockey tells the story of an unlikely team of dreamers and their audacious journey from the Yukon to Ottawa to play for the Stanley Cup in 1905. Their quest showed how quickly hockey—a niche, regional sport when Lord Stanley donated the trophy a dozen years earlier—had become the national pastime. Klondikers made the Globe and Mail‘s Top 100 of 2021 list.
• Bad Singer: The Surprising Science of Tone Deafness and How We Hear Music. Based on “Face the Music,” a National Magazine Award-winning feature, follows Falconer’s quest to overcome tone deafness and learn to sing. Along the way, he learns about human evolution and music, the brain science behind tone-deafness, and what we really hear when we listen to music. Bad Singer made the Globe and Mail‘s Top 100 of 2016 list and was a finalist for the Lane Anderson Award. The New York Times called it “fascinating and fun.”
• That Good Night: Ethicists, Euthanasia and End-of-Life Care
• Drive: A Road Trip through Our Complicated Affair with the Automobile
• Watchdogs and Gadflies: Activism from Marginal to Mainstream.
He also helped popular parenting guru Dr. Alex Russell write Drop the Worry Ball: How to Parent in the Age of Entitlement.