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Sid Marty

Sid Marty is a fourth-generation Albertan, who has published five books of non-fiction, the latest being The Black Grizzly of Whiskey Creek, and three of poetry, some of which are based on his formative experiences as a park warden in the Rocky Mountain national parks.

His book Leaning on the Wind: Under the Spell of the Great Chinook was a finalist for the l996 Governor General’s Award for Literature and won the Mountain Environment and Culture Award at the l996 Banff Mountain Book Festival.

Men for the Mountains was twice cited by the National Parks and Wilderness Association as one of the 50 books most influential in the Canadian conservation movement. Switchbacks won the Jon Whyte Award for Mountain Literature at the l999 Banff Mountain Book Festival.