Farley Mowat (born May 12, 1921) is a Canadian novelist.

He grew up in Saskatoon and, loving animals, he kept an alligator and birds inside his house.

Criticism

Many of the articles written about him are not positive. The Toronto Star has written that he bases his stories on fiction and avoids the truth. Once, when Mowat said that he has spent two summers and a winter studying wolves, the Toronto Star wrote that Mowat had only spent 90 hours studying the wolves.

Writings by Farley Mowat

  • People of the Deer (1952; revised 1975)
  • The Regiment (1955)
  • Lost in the Barrens (1956)
  • The Dog Who Wouldn't Be (1957)
  • Coppermine Journey: An Account of a Great Adventure (1958)
  • Grey Seas Under: The Perilous Rescure Missions of a North Atlantic Salvage Tug (1959)
  • The Desperate People (1959; revised 1999)
  • Ordeal by Ice (1960)
  • Owls in the Family (1961)
  • The Serpent's Coil: An Incredible Story of Hurricane-Battered ships the Heroic Men Who Fought to Save Them (1961)
  • The Black Joke (1962)
  • Never Cry Wolf (1963) filmed in 1983
  • West Viking (1965)
  • The Curse of the Viking Grave (1966)
  • Canada North (1967)
  • The Polar Passion (1967)
  • This Rock Within the Sea: A Heritage Lost (1968)
  • The Boat Who Wouldn't Float (1969)
  • Sibir: My Discovery of Siberia (1970)
  • World of Farley Mowat (1970)
  • A Whale for the Killing (1972)
  • Tundra: Selections from the Great Accounts of Arctic Land Voyages (1973)
  • Wake of the Great Sealers (1973)
  • The Snow Walker (1975)
  • Canada North Now: The Great Betrayal (1976)
  • And No Birds Sang (1979)
  • My Discovery of America (1985)
  • Virunga: The Passion Of Dian Fossey (1987)
  • Woman in the Mists: The Story of Dian Fossey (1987)
  • The New Founde Land (1989)
  • My Father's Son (1993)
  • Born Naked (1994)
  • Aftermath: Travels in a Post-War World (1995)
  • Sea of Slaughter (1996)
  • Rescue the Earth!: Conversations with the Green Crusaders (1998)
  • The Farfarers, Before the Norse (2000)
  • Walking on the land (2000)
  • High Latitudes: An Arctic Journey (2002)