Mowat, Farley

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Information for Authority record

Name (Hebrew)
מוואט, פרלי, 1921-2014
Name (Latin)
Mowat, Farley
Other forms of name
Mouėt, Farli Mak-Gill
Mowat, Farley McGill
Mowat, Farley, 1921-
מואט, פרלי
Date of birth
1921
Date of death
2014
Place of birth
Belleville (Ont.)
Associated country
Canada
Place of residence/headquarters
Belleville (Ont.)
Saskatoon (Sask.)
Field of activity
Biology
Associate group
University of Toronto
Occupation
Naturalists
Soldiers
Authors
Environmentalists
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
Fuller form of name
Farley McGill
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 39381821
Wikidata: Q966679
Library of congress: n 79118087
Sources of Information
  • Amicus, June 8, 2004(Mowat, Farley, 1921- )
  • BL database 27 Aug. 2008(hdg.: Mowat, Farley McGill)
  • Canadiana, July 15, 2022(access point: Mowat, Farley, 1921-; writer, soldier, naturalist; served in WWII with the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment)
  • His People of the Deer, 1952.
  • Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02(b. 1921)
  • New York times (online), viewed May 8, 2014(in obituary published May 7: Farley Mowat; b. Farley McGill Mowat, May 12, 1921, Belleville, Ont.; d. Tuesday [May 6, 2014], Port Hope, Ont., aged 92; one of Canada's most popular and prolific writers, who became a champion of wildlife and native Canadian rights and a sharp critic of environmental abuse)
  • The curse of the Viking grave, 2023:CIP title page (Farley Mowat)
  • Wikipedia, website viewed 18 July 2013(Farley Mowat; Farley McGill Mowat; b. May 12, 1921, Belleville, Ontario, Canada; Canadian author and environmentalist; during depression family moved to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; second lieutenant in 2nd World War; studied biology at the University of Toronto; author of non-fiction and fiction)
  • LCN note: b. 1921
  • ידידי הזאבים, (תשל"ו 1975):
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Wikipedia description:

Farley McGill Mowat (May 12, 1921 – May 6, 2014) was a Canadian writer and environmentalist. His works were translated into 52 languages, and he sold more than 17 million books. He achieved fame with the publication of his books on the Canadian north, such as People of the Deer (1952) and Never Cry Wolf (1963). The latter, an account of his experiences with wolves in the Arctic, was made into a film of the same name released in 1983. For his body of work as a writer he won the annual Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature in 1970. Mowat's advocacy for environmental causes earned him praise, but his admission, after some of his books' claims had been debunked, that he "never let the facts get in the way of the truth" earned harsh criticism, while his supporters noted that the literary "exaggerations… [in] his books almost single-handedly drew attention to the plight of the Inuit and serious environmental issues, bringing about substantive changes of policy in Ottawa". Descriptions of Mowat refer to his "commitment to ideals" and "poetic descriptions and vivid images" as well as his strong antipathies, which provoke "ridicule, lampoons and, at times, evangelical condemnation".

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