Jerry Auld
Hooker and Brown

Thursday, November 5
Max Bell Auditorium
$30/day (not including Literary Lunch Break)

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Jerry Auld’s short stories have been published in Alpinist and in the Canadian Alpine Journal. He is a graduate of the University of Calgary and an alumnus of the Banff Writing Studio, where he worked under the direction of Michael Helm and Paul Quarrington. At the 2005 Banff Mountain Film Festival, Auld was the co-recipient of the People’s Choice Award for the independent film Sister Extreme.

Born and raised in Calgary, Auld’s knowledge of the mountains comes from a life-long love of hiking, travel and full-time work in the Canadian Rockies.

His debut novel Hooker & Brown creatively melds fiction and legend with Canadian history. Through the course of research on this novel, Auld discovered that he is directly related (eight generations) to William Auld who was Chief Factor of York Factory in 1811 — a significant time in Canada’s fur trade history when David Thompson opened Athabasca Pass and established the route for all subsequent fur brigades. Hooker & Brown is “a journey to determine what is truth and what is agenda, what is mystery and what is ego, what is the map and what is the territory, and the way in which we can nurture mystery and so keep in touch with the land — the sense of place in which we live — and how we can keep the mystery alive”

Hooker & Brown has been recently shortlisted for the 2009 Boardman Tasker award in the UK.

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Photo credit: Jerry Auld © Tjerk Bartlema