Ken Cuthbertson

Background

Ken Cuthbertson was born on May 7, 1951, in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, to James T., a blacksmith, and Dorothy M. Hubley, a homemaker.

Career

Since 1975, Cuthbertson worked as a writer, journalist, magazine editor and biographer. From 1984 to 1985, he was a Barrister. Since 1986, Ken was an editor in the Queen’s Alumni Review.

Achievements

• Ken Cuthbertson is a veteran journalist with more than thirty years’ experience writing for newspapers and magazines in Canada, the US and the UK.
  
  

Works

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• book

  • A Complex Fate: William L. Shirer and the American Century
  • Nobody Said Not to Go: The Life, Loves, and Adventures of Emily Hahn
  • Congo Solo: Misadventures Two Degrees North
  • No Hurry to Get Home: The Memoir of the New Yorker Writer Whose Unconventional Life and Adventures Spanned the 20th Century
  • Inside: The Biography of John Gunther
  • Two Dogs and a Rifle

• Other Work

  • The Halifax Explosion: Canada's Worst Disaster
  • The Memoirs of the Hon. Henry E. MacFutter: Ring of Truth

Views

Quotations: “Life is too short to spend it doing anything you don’t enjoy.”

“I could have been a doctor, but I did not want to live by men’s illnesses. I could have been a priest, but I did not want to live by men’s sins. I could have been a lawyer, but I did not want to live by men’s quarrels. So instead, I became a writer and I wrote about them.”

“My writing began as a hobby; it became a vocation, and it is now my passion. I am constantly learning and striving to become a better writer and to extend my range."

"My goal in writing the book is to entertain, and also to prove to the world that Canadian history is not, as one observer once put it, ‘as dull as ditchwater.’”

Interests

• Running, reading

• Sport & Clubs

  baseball

Connections

Ken married Marianne Hunter, a nurse, on October 7, 1978. They have three daughters.

Father:

James T. Cuthbertson

Mother:

Dorothy M. Hubley Cuthbertson

Wife:

Marianne Hunter