JOHN VAILLANT’s acclaimed, award-winning nonfiction books, The Golden Spruce y The Tiger, were national bestsellers. His debut novel, The Jaguar’s Children, was a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the International Dublin Literary Award. He has received the Governor General’s Literary Award, British Columbia’s National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize, and the Pearson Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction. He has written for, among others, El neoyorquino, El Atlántico, National Geographic, y The Walrus. He lives in Vancouver.