Grant Lawrence
Works by Grant Lawrence:
- Adventures in Solitude: What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound
- Return to Solitude: More Desolation Sound Adventures with the Cougar Lady, Russell the Hermit, the Spaghetti Bandit and Others
- The Lonely End of the Rink: Confessions of a Reluctant Goalie
- Dirty Windshields: The Best and the Worst of the Smugglers Tour Diaries
- Bailey the Bat and the Tangled Moose
Award-winning author Grant Lawrence of CBC fame, and musician, although born in West Vancouver and currently living in East Vancouver, has spent his holidays since the 70s at a cottage in Desolation Sound Marine Park, at the confluence of Malaspina Inlet and Homfray Channel, 32 km north of Powell River, only accessible by boat. The park was created in 1973. Desolation Sound was named by Captain George Vancouver in 1792.
He's written three best-selling books for adults: Adventures in Solitude (2010), The Lonely End of the Rink (2013), and Dirty Windshields (2017). Bailey the Bat and the Tangled Moose, his first children's picture book, was released in 2021. Grant Lawrence is the first author in the history of the BC Book Prizes to win the Bill Duthie Booksellers Choice twice. Grant is also the host of the CBC Music Top 20, the lead singer of The Smugglers, and a Canadian Screen Award winner. He is also a goalie for the Vancouver Flying Vees beer league hockey team. He's married to musician Jill Barber and they live in Vancouver with their two children, Josh and Grace. Return to Solitude is Grant's long-awaited sequel to Adventures in Solitude.
He presented at the Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts in 2011 and 2014.