Draft:Ken Cuthbertson

• Comment: Is not notable. Not enough independent coverage. Ktkvtsh (talk) 01:15, 22 August 2024 (UTC)

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Ken Cuthbertson
Born	Kenneth James Cuthbertson May 7, 1951 Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Alma mater	Queen's University
Occupation	Author
Notable work	Inside: The Biography of John Gunther, Nobody Said Not to Go, The Halifax Explosion: Canada's Worst Disaster
Spouse	Marianne Hunter

Kingston, ON-born author-editor Ken Cuthbertson (born May 7, 1951) has written seven books and is the editor of one other. In addition, Cuthbertson has contributed freelance articles to newspapers and magazines around the world, including The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Times of London, TV Guide, and various other publications in the Canada and the U.S. In 1981-82, he served as the Kingston correspondent for CBC Radio (Ottawa). He also regularly writes for the website and publications of the law school at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.

Early life and education

Cuthbertson was born in Kingston, Ontario, where he spent his early life. He studied modern American history at Queen's University in Kingston, graduating with an Honors BA in 1974 and then earned a Master of Arts (Journalism) degree at Western University in London, Ontario, in 1975. After working as a journalist for five years, he returned to university and graduated from Queen’s Law with his JD degree in 1983. He then worked as a lawyer for 18 months before a 1986 return to journalism.

Journalism career

After earning his Master of Arts degree in journalism, Cuthbertson worked at a metropolitan Toronto weekly newspaper (in Scarborough), The Regina Leader Post, The London Free Press, and The Kingston Whig-Standard, the latter while attending law school at Queen's University. In 1986, he took a job with the Queen's Alumni Review magazine, serving for one year as assistant editor for one year and then as editor for the next 27 years, 1987-2014. In addition to his full-time work, Cuthbertson has written freelance articles for newspapers and magazines around the world, including The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, The National Post, Times of London, TV Guide, Kingston Life magazine and various other publications. In 1981-82, he served as the Kingston correspondent for CBC Radio (Ottawa).

Books

Cuthbertson edited the Queen’s Alumni Review for 27 years. His first book, Inside: The Biography of John Gunther with a Foreword by renowned American journalist William L. Shirer (Bonus Books), was published in 1992 to critical acclaim and garnered a nomination for a Governor General's Literary Award in the Non-Fiction category. Cuthbertson followed up that success in 1998 with Nobody Said Not to Go (Faber and Faber), a biography of New Yorker journalist Emily Hahn, and in 2014 by The Memoirs of the Hon., Henry E. MacFutter: The Ring of Truth (Quarry Heritage Book), a whimsical historical novel set in Kingston, ON, during the Rebellion of 1837.

Following his 2014 retirement from Queen's, Cuthbertson wrote a biography titled A Complex Fate: William L. Shirer and the American Century (McGill-Queen's University Press), which included a Foreword by renowned CBS broadcast journalist Morley Safer of CBS. In 2017, Cuthbertson's next book The Halifax Explosion: Canada's Worst Disaster (HarperCollins Canada) was shortlisted for an Atlantic Book Award and achieved Canadian bestseller status. In 2020, he published 1945: The Year That Made Modern Canada (HarperCollins Canada), which was also a Canadian bestseller, and then in 2023 the book Blood on the Coal: The True Story of the Great Springhill Mine Disaster (HarperCollins Canada), which was a Canadian bestseller and was hailed by The Globe and Mail as one of the 100 Best Books of 2023.

Cuthbertson is also the author and editor of the booklet When the Ponies Ran: The Untold Story of Kingston's Minor-league Professional Baseball Team. 1946-51 (Cataraqui Press, 2021). In addition, he also wrote an introduction to No Hurry to Get Home (Seal Press), a 2000 reissue of Hahn's 1970 book Times and Places; and he contributed a Foreword for the 2023 non-fiction book Sudden Impact: The Almonte Train Wreck of 1942 (Burnstown Publishing). As an editor, in 2011 Cuthbertson restored and re-edited Congo Solo: Misadventures Two Degrees North (McGill-Queen's University Press) a classic (but forgotten) 1933 travel book by Emily Hahn.

On the small screen, Cuthbertson appeared as one of the "talking heads" in segments two and three of the 2024 Netflix documentary series Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial. And the Los Angeles-based producer Mark Yellin Productions has optioned film rights to Cuthbertson's book Nobody Said Not to Go to serve as the partial basis for a forthcoming streaming-service series on the adventures of Emily Hahn in Shanghai in the 1930s.

Personal life

Cuthbertson has lived most of his life in Kingston, Ontario; however, he has also lived in Toronto, London (Ontario) and Regina, Saskatchewan. He and his wife Marianne, a nurse by profession, have three grown daughters.

Works

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Title	Year	ISBN	Publisher	Comments
Inside: the Biography of John Gunther	1992	0-929387-70-8	Bonus Books	Foreword by William L. Shire
Nobody Said Not to Go	1998	0-571-19950-X	Faber and Faber	Available as an e-book
The Memoirs of the Hon. Henry E. MacFutter: The Ring of Truth	2014	978-1-5508-2389-9	Quarry Heritage Books	Out of print
A Complex Fate: William L. Shirer and the American Century	2015	978-0-7735-4544-1	McGill-Queen’s University Press	Foreword by Morley Safer Available as an e-book
The Halifax Explosion	2017	978-1-44345-025-6	HarperCollins Canada	Available as an e-book
1945: The Year That Made Modern Canada	2020	978-14434-593-41	HarperCollins Canada	Available as an e-book and as an audio book
Blood on the Coal: The Great Springhill Mine Disaster	2023	978-14434-679-19	HarperCollins Canada	Foreword by Anne Murray Available as an e-book and as an audio book
When the Ponies Ran: the Untold Story of Kingston’s minor pro baseball team, 1946-51	2021	978-1-7777064-0-1	Cataraqui Press