John ralston saul biography wikipedia tagalog

John Ralston Saul Biography

He is the husband and Vice-Regal consort to Canada's Governor General Adrienne Clarkson.

Born in Ottawa, Saul studied at McGill University in Montreal and at the University of London, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1972.

John ralston saul biography wikipedia tagalog

After working for Petro-Canada, he turned his attention to writing.

His first works were novels, including The Birds of Prey, Baraka, The Next Best Thing, The Paradise Eater, and De si bons Américains.

He is best known, however, for his philosophical essays.

These began with a philosophical trilogy made up of the bestseller Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West; the polemic philosophical dictionary The Doubter's Companion; and the book that grew out of his presentation of the Massey Lectures, The Unconscious Civilization.

The latter won the 1996 Governor-General's Award for Non-Fiction Liter