Background
Mick Lowe was born as Michael Ellenwood Lowe on September 23, 1947, in Omaha, Nebraska, United States. He is the son of Jack Whiddon and Grace Ellenwood Lowe.
Mick Lowe was born as Michael Ellenwood Lowe on September 23, 1947, in Omaha, Nebraska, United States. He is the son of Jack Whiddon and Grace Ellenwood Lowe.
Mick Lowe attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln from 1965 till 1969. While studying, Lowe was a columnist and writer for Daily Nebraskan from 1966 till 1968 and a staff writer for Lincoln Daily Star from 1967 till 1968. He moved to Canada in 1970 and studied there at the University of Calgary.
After moving to Canada Mick Lowe worked as a staff writer and columnist at Georgia Straight from 1970 till 1972. In 1972 he was a co-founder of The Grape. Then he worked as an editor at Gauntlet from 1973 till 1974. Later he joined The Globe and Mail as a freelance correspondent for three years, worked as a staff reporter at CBC Radio News and as a founding producer at LBC radio Morning North Sudbury and returned to The Globe and Mail. After working there for eight years, Lowe published his first book Conspiracy of Brothers: A True Story of Murder, Bikers, and the Law (1988). This book is an account of the criminal investigation and trial of eight men accused of the 1978 murder of Bill Matiyek, a biker with the Golden Hawks Riders. Lowe raised questions regarding the handling of evidence and the testimony of witnesses.
Lowe continued writing books and also taught journalism at Cambrian College from 1988 till 1990. His next book was One Woman Army: The Life of Claire Culhane (1992). It's Lowe’s biography of the Canadian who championed human rights by opposing fascism during the Spanish Civil War through the support of trade unions in the 1940s and by exposing political corruption while serving as a nurse during the Vietnam War. The book features black and white photographs of Culhane dating back to her childhood. This book was followed by a book on the rush to exploit the Voisey's Bay nickel deposit, Premature Bonanza: Standoff at Voisey's Bay (1998).
That same year, he was diagnosed with cancer and referred to Sudbury's newly created cancer treatment center, where he received radiation. Lowe's career was interrupted by a stroke in 2008 that left him partially paralyzed on his left side. He was forced to leave his home and became a resident of a Pioneer Manor. There he realized his long-time goal to write fiction, something he had struggled to achieve in the past. As a result, the author published his The Nickel Range Trilogy consisting of books The Raids (2014), The Insatiable Maw (2015), and Wintersong (2017). Nowadays, Mick Lowe is working on his next project: a memoir about his life growing up in the United States.
(It's September 1978 and the 11,700 hard rock miners and s...)
2017(One Woman Army is the story of social activist Claire Cul...)
1992(In this story of eco-resistance based on actual events in...)
2015(On the night of October 18, 1978, small-town biker Bill M...)
1988Quotations: "We can make a difference. We can solve some of these problems which appear so intractable."
Mick Lowe is a member of Writers Union Canada.
Mick Lowe has two daughters, Julia Kathleen and Melanie Nancy.
