Jake MacDonald is a Canadian author who has written eight books of both fiction and non-fiction and several hundred articles for many of Canada's leading publications, including the Globe and Mail, Canadian Geographic, Macleans, Cottage Life, Outdoor Canada, and Explore. About twenty of his
magazine stories have received awards, and his recent book Houseboat Chronicles won three awards across the country, including the Writers Trust of Canada prize for non-fiction.

"Jake MacDonald is as masterful in the wild as he is at a keyboard -- and Grizzlyville is a great, great book. It offers insights into the very soul of Canada. It is as literary as it is scientific -- but above all it is brilliant and compelling old-fashioned storytelling. Like its subject, this is a book with raw power and surprising gentleness, a book that leaves the visitor in awe of both topic and teller."

Roy MacGregor, author of A Life In The Bush
(or, if you'd rather, Canadians: Portrait of a Country and Its People)

"Grizzlyville does a wondrous job of placing bears back where they belong--not in dumps, roadsides or the porches of summer cottages--but in the natural world and in those recesses of human imagination where bears have always lived. Jake MacDonald has written a vivid book, rich in detail, about one of the earth's greatest creatures."

-Thomas McGuane