A. B. McKillop

A. B. McKillop

A.B. McKillop (born 1946) is currently Chancellor's Professor and Chair of the history department of Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

McKillop was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba and educated at the University of Manitoba (BA 1968, MA 1970) and Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario (PhD 1977). He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2001.

A specialist in intellectual and cultural history, his books include ' (1979), "Contours of Canadian Thought" (1987), ', and "The Spinster and the Prophet; Florence Deeks, H.G. Wells, and the Mystery of the Purloined Past" (2000). The last of these won the Toronto Book Prize, University of British Columbia's President's Medal for Biography, and the Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award for "Best True Crime."

External links

* [http://http-server.carleton.ca/~mckillop/ Carleton University - McKillop's homepage]


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