Fishing with John

Recently made into the movie, "Navigating the Heart," starring Jaclyn Smith and Tim Matheson. Shortlisted for the Governor General's Award and the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Award.

Publishers Weekly

A widely traveled reporter for the New Yorker , author of Inuit Journey and Denison's Ice Road , and former foreign correspondent and White House reporter, Iglauer met and married John Daly, a salmon fisherman, while working in Vancouver, B.C. She spent the next four years, until his death in 1978, aboard his 41-foot troller, the Morekelp. Daly was a Canadian eccentric, a man with a deep love of nature, dedicated to the sea. Iglauer's memoir of their life together is a moving appreciation of the precise, hard labor of fishermen, of stunning land- and seascapes along the Pacific coast, of a remarkable man. Time spent with him included listening to radio concerts, visits to old friends in isolated places, joining strikers on a seagoing picket line, savoring the minor pleasures of life. This superb book could be subtitled ``A Study in Serenity.'' A portion of it previously appeared in the New Yorker. (August)

Edith Iglauer was born in Cleveland, Ohio. She married Philip Hamburger and raised two sons in New York. A frequent contributor to the "New Yorker", she has written a great deal about Canada. Her first book, "The New People" (1966, reprinted and updated as "Inuit Journey" in 1979 and 2000) chronicled the growth of native cooperatives in the eastern Arctic. She profiled Pierre Trudeau in 1969 and internationally known architect Arthur Erickson in 1979. "Denison's Ice Road" is about the building of a 325-mile winter road above the Arctic Circle. Divorced in 1966, she came to Vancouver in 1973. She married John Heywood Daly, a commercial salmon troller and moved to Garden Bay on the BC coast. Daly died in 1978. After writing "Seven Stones: A Portrait of Arthur Erickson, Architect" (1981) she began recording her memories of her late husband and his salmon troller the "MoreKelp". The result was "Fishing with John", a runaway bestseller and nominee for the 1989 Governor General's Award for Non-Fiction. Her second memoir, about her career in journalism, was "The Strangers Next Door".