![]() ![]() It is a mixture of investigative journalism, social history, geography and nature writing. In 2010, he published The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival about a man-eating tiger incident that took place in 1997, in Russia's Far Eastern Primorsky Krai, where most of the world's Amur tigers live. It was a bestseller and won a number of awards. ![]() Vaillant's first book, The Golden Spruce, dealt with the felling of the Golden Spruce or Kiidk'yaas on Haida Gwaii by Grant Hadwin. He is the son of Harvard psychiatrist and social scientist George Eman Vaillant, and grandson to the famed archaeologist George Clapp Vaillant. Vaillant was born and raised in Massachusetts and has lived in Vancouver since 1998. He has written both non-fiction and fiction books. John Vaillant (born 1962) is an American-Canadian writer and journalist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, National Geographic, and Outside. John Vaillant on Bookbits radio talks about The Tiger. ![]()
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