John Ibbitson

Ibbitson grew up in Gravenhurst, Ontario. He graduated from the University of Toronto in 1979 with a B.A. in English. In 1987, Ibbitson entered the University of Western Ontario. In 1988, he graduated with an M.A in journalism. == Career ==

After university, he pursued a career as a playwright, his most notable play being Mayonnaise, In January 2014, Ibbitson began a one-year leave of absence from the Globe to serve as a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation and to work on a biography of Prime Minister Stephen Harper. His biography on Harper was published in August 2015. In 2016, the book won the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. In 2019, Ibbitson and Bricker co-authored the book Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline. It was published separately in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. It was also translated into Chinese, Spanish, Japanese, and Korean. == Personal life ==

Ibbitson is married to Grant Burke. == Awards and honours ==

• In 2008, the Canada Council bestowed upon Ibbitson the Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature for his book The Landing. • In 2016, a jury selected by the Writers' Trust of Canada bestowed upon Ibbitson the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. Ibbitson won for his biography, Stephen Harper, on the Canadian prime minister. == Bibliography ==