Grant Lawrence

For years, the gregarious and encyclopedic Lawrence has hosted the top-rated CBC Radio 3 Podcast with Grant Lawrence(opens in new tab), a monthly showcase of Canadian independent music.

In the fall of 2013, Grant released his second book, entitled The Lonely End of the Rink: Confessions of a Reluctant Goalie(opens in new tab), The new book is a darkly hilarious memoir of Grant’s conflicted relationship with the game of hockey and his position as goaltender on his beer league hockey team, the championship-winning Vancouver Flying Vees. His sophomore writing effort was an immediate bestseller, debuting at #3 on the National Nonfiction Paperback List, and hitting #1 on the BC Bestsellers list, and won the BC Book Prize for the 2014 Book of the Year (Grant Lawrence is the only BC author to have won this award twice).

Grant’s first book, Adventures in Solitude, is a memoir of his experiences spending his summers growing up in the coastal wilderness of Desolation Sound, BC, which went to #1 on the BC Bestsellers List, #2 on the National Bestsellers List, won the BC Book Prize for the 2010 Book of the Year, and was a finalist for the inaugural Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Non-Fiction(opens in new tab). Grant still spends much of each summer at his cabin in the Sound between MC gigs at summer festivals.

Grant is married to Canadian singer Jill Barber(opens in new tab) and they live together with their son Joshua in Vancouver, BC Canada.

Photo and excerpt from: grantlawrence.ca