J. F. C. Wright

James Frederick Church Wright (1904–1970) was a Canadian journalist and historian, who won the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction at the 1940 Governor General's Awards for Slava Bohu^a, a historical account of Canada's Doukhobor community.^[1]

Born in Wiltshire, England in 1904 to Canadian parents who were travelling there,^[2] he was raised in Minnedosa, Manitoba.^[2] He held a variety of jobs before joining the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix as a journalist,^[2] remaining there for seven years.^[2] At the time of his Governor General's Award win, he was working in Ottawa, Ontario as a fireman,^[2] but later took a scriptwriting job with the National Film Board.^[3] He married Diana Kingsmill in 1944 while living in Ottawa,^[3] and the couple later moved back to Saskatoon.^[3]

Active in the Saskatchewan chapter of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, the Wrights became co-editors of Union Farmer, the newspaper of the Saskatchewan Farmers' Union, in 1950.^[4]

Wright's later books included All Clear, Canada! (1944), Co-operative Farming in Saskatchewan (1949), Saskatchewan's North (1953), Saskatchewan: The History of a Province (1955), Prairie Progress: Consumer Co-operation in Saskatchewan (1956) and The Louise Lucas Story: This Time Tomorrow (1965).

He committed suicide in 1970.