Stephen R. Bown is a Canadian writer of non-fiction books. His works have received several nonfiction awards, including the 2021 National Business Book Award for The Company: The Rise and Fall of the Hudson's Bay Empire. Bown's first nonfiction book, Sightseers and Scholars: Scientific Travellers in the Golden Age of Natural History, was published in 2002. As of 2026, he has published twelve non-fiction books. Bown discussed his career in a 2017 interview with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. His favorite childhood book series was Cugel's Saga by Jack Vance. Bown stated that Vance's travels to Borneo and Indonesia broadened Vance's worldview, which inspired Bown to "open my mind to understand the decisions and actions of the true historical individuals that I write about." More information...
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