RICHARD GWYN is an award-winning author and political columnist. He is widely known as a commentator for theToronto Star on national and international affairs and as a frequent contributor to television and radio programs. His books include two highly praised biographies,Smallwood: The Unlikely Revolutionary on Newfoundland premier Joey Smallwood, andThe Northern Magus on Pierre Elliott Trudeau. His book, Nationalism Without Walls: The Unbearable Lightness of Being Canadian, was selected by the Literary Review of Canada as one of the 100 most important books published in Canada. The first volume of Gwyn's biography of Macdonald was published in 2007, became a national bestseller and won the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction.