A. B. McKillop

Who is A. B. McKillop?

A.B. McKillop is Distinguished Research Professor and former 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 and Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2001.

A specialist in intellectual and cultural history, his books include:

⁕A Critical Spirit: The Thought of William Dawson LeSueur

⁕A Disciplined Intelligence: Critical Inquiry and Canadian Thought in the Victorian Era

⁕Contexts of Canada's Past: Selected Essays of W.L. Morton

⁕Contours of Canadian Thought

⁕Matters of Mind: The University in Ontario, 1791-1951

⁕The Spinster and the Prophet; Florence Deeks, H.G. Wells, and the Mystery of the Purloined Past.

⁕Pierre Berton: A Biography

The Spinster and the Prophet won the Toronto Book Awards, the University of British Columbia's President's Medal for Biography, and the Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award for "Best True Crime".

In the fall of 2008 McKillop released Pierre Berton: A Biography, a comprehensive examination of the life of the late historian and media celebrity, Pierre Berton. The book won the Donald Grant Creighton of the Ontario Historical Society for best biography or memoir. It appeared as a trade paperback in September 2010.