Simpson, Jeffrey
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Birthname | Jeffrey Carl Simpson | ||||
born on | 17 February 1949 at 02:04 (= 02:04 AM ) | ||||
Place | New York, New York, 40n43, 74w00 | ||||
Timezone | EST h5w (is standard time) | ||||
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Biography
Canadian journalist who has won all three of Canada's leading literary prizes — the Governor General's Award for non-fiction book writing, the National Magazine Award for political writing, and the National Newspaper Award for column writing. He has also won the Hyman Solomon Award for excellence in public policy journalism and the Donner Prize for the best public policy book by a Canadian. In January 2000, he became an Officer of the Order of Canada.
Simpson was The Globe and Mail's national affairs columnist for almost three decades. He retired from the Globe at the end of June 2016. Simpson has authored eight books.
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Source Notes
Sy Scholfield quotes from "My Slides of Hawaii" by Jeffery Simpson, The Globe and Mail (Toronto, Ont.), 31 Oct. 1987, p. D6: "I was born at 2:04 a.m. in a red-brick hospital near New York City under a half-moon."
Categories
- Vocation : Writers : Columnist/ journalist
- Vocation : Writers : Textbook/ Non-fiction
- Notable : Awards : Public Service (Officer of the Order of Canada/ OC)
- Notable : Awards : Vocational award