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Author: Guy Vanderhaeghe                                                                 Title: The Englishman's Boy

What made me interested in this author was actualy my wonderful teacher ms. Breivik. I love western movies and books. So when i heard that the book The Enlishman's Boywas a Western i went for it right away. Guy Vanderhaghe has done a couple westerns so i thought this book had to be good. I also heard that he is a very good author.

Guy Vanderhaeghe was born April 5, 1951, in Esterhazy, Saskatchewan. He went to the university of Saskatchewan. He gained a reputation for one of the country's best young writers based on his stories of prairie life. His mom was a school teacher and his dad a rodeo cowboy, also a construction worker. pot a teacher and cowboy together you get a western book writer.

Guy Vanderhaeghe has written The Englishmans Boy, The Last Crossing,  Things as they Are, Homesick, My Present Age, and Man Descending. Many awards and honours he has received are Canada Reads, the Governor General’s Awards (twice), the Writers’ Trust Timothy Findley Award, and the Harbourfront Festival Prize. He wrote novels and short stories. Some fiction, he has written western's, and historical fiction. 

I am actualy very interested in my author Guy Vanderhaeghe because he grew up in the prairies and knows so much about cowboys and indians and i just love that stuff. He grew up in the prairies and his dad was a rodeo cowboy, so that just there is realy cool. He reminds me of my Grandpa because he loves the environment and oldwesterns. He has told me stories about when he was young and it reminded me of him being a cowboy doing all this crazy stuff. As a child connected with family history, family relationships, Guy developed an interest in writing, but gave it up as a teenager. He did not want to be known as the "brain". He worked as an archivist, researcher and high school teacher in the 1970s before beginning to write full time.

Guy's favored themes are : Humour, violence, irony,  religion,  mythological allusion, crime, bravery, idealism, villains, woman in distress, western.

I do not think anyone compares to Guy Vanderhaeghe, He grew up in the prairies and wrote stories of the prairie life with indeans and cowboys. He grew up around this stuff and writes amazing books about what he's learned, saw and thought of.