Tim Falconer

TIM FALCONER is the author of Bad Singer: The Surprising Science of Tone Deafness and How We Hear Music , which the Globe and Mail named to The Globe 100 Best Books of 2016 . He's also written books on activism, our love-hate relationship with the car, end-of-life ethics, and parenting. Falconer teaches creative nonfiction at the University of King's College in Halifax, is a faculty editor in the literary journalism program at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, and taught magazine...See more

TIM FALCONER is the author of Bad Singer: The Surprising Science of Tone Deafness and How We Hear Music , which the Globe and Mail named to The Globe 100 Best Books of 2016 . He's also written books on activism, our love-hate relationship with the car, end-of-life ethics, and parenting. Falconer teaches creative nonfiction at the University of King's College in Halifax, is a faculty editor in the literary journalism program at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, and taught magazine journalism at Toronto's Ryerson University for two decades. A former writer-in-residence at Berton House in Dawson City, he returns to the Yukon as often as he can, but lives in Toronto. See less