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Stephen Kimber, the Rogers Communications Chair in Journalism at the University of King's College in Halifax, is an award-winning writer, editor and broadcaster. He is the author of eight books, including one novel and seven non-fiction titles, as well as co-author of two other nonfiction books. His current work-in-progress is a narrative nonfiction account of the Cuban Five, controversial Cuban spies serving long sentences in U.S. prisons but regarded as heroes in their homeland. For 16 years, he was a political and general interest columnist for the Daily News in Halifax. He is currently the Senior Feature Writer for The Coast, a Halifax weekly, and a weekly columnist for Halifax Metro. Since 1983, he has taught journalism fulltime at the University of King's College, where he specializes in narrative nonfiction. From 1996 to 2003 and in 2007-08, he was Director of the School. In 2001, he completed a Masters in Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction degree at Goucher College in Baltimore, MD. He and his wife, television and film costume designer Jeanie Kimber, live in Halifax. They have three grown children. You can read excerpts from his work at his websites.
- Halifax: Warden of the North. (Updated edition with three chapters by Stephen Kimber) Nimbus 2010. ISBN 978-1-55109-715-2.
- IWK: A Century of Caring for Families. Nimbus 2009. ISBN 978-1-551-09712-1.
- Loyalists and Layabouts. Doubleday, 2008. ISBN 978-0-385-66172-0 .
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- Reparations. Harper Collins, 2006. ISBN 978-0-00-639311-5.
- Shortlisted: Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction, Crime Writers' of Canada First Novel Award
- Sailors, Slackers and Blind Pigs: Halifax at War. Doubleday, 2002. ISBN 0-385-25994-8.
- Winner of the Evelyn Richardson Nonfiction Award, Dartmouth Book Award for Nonfiction, and Torgi Award.
- Shortlisted: Atlantic Booksellers' Choice Award
- NOT GUILTY: The Trial of Gerald Regan. Stoddart, 1999. ISBN 0-7737-3192-X.
- Flight 111: The Tragedy of the Swissair Crash. Doubleday, 1999. ISBN 0-7704-2840-1
- More Than Just Folks. Pottersfield, 1996. ISBN 1-895900-01-8
- Spirit of Africville. co-author, Maritext. ISBN 0-88780-084-X
- Net Profits. Nimbus, 1990. ISBN 0-921054-08-4.
- Shortlisted for the Dartmouth Book Award for Non-fiction .
