<p class="biography"><b>Roderick L. Haig-Brown</b> (1908-1976) was a Canadian writer, magistrate and conservationist. A prolific writer, he is the author of twenty-eight books and hundreds of articles, essays and poems. Some of the titles include <i>Saltwater Summer</i> (Governor General Award Winner, 1948), <i>A River Never Sleeps</i>, and <i>Fisherman’s Summer</i>. In recognition of his contribution to Canadian environmental literature, the Haig-Brown name has been gifted to a national park near Kamloops, a Canada Council sponsored writer-in-residence retreat near Campbell River, and a mountain on Vancouver Island.</p>