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John Ibbitson is a Canadian journalist. Since 1999 he has been a political writer and columnist for The Globe and Mail. He has written five books on Ontario and Canadian politics, Promised Land: Inside the Mike Harris Revolution, Loyal No More: Ontario's Struggle for a Separate Destiny, The Polite Revolution: Perfecting the Canadian Dream, Open & Shut: Why America Has Barack Obama and Canada Has Stephen Harper, and The Big Shift: The Seismic Change in Canadian Politics, Business, and Culture and What It Means for Our Future with Darrell Bricker. His latest young-adult novel, The Landing was winner of the 2008 Governor General's Award for children's literature.
He graduated from the University of Toronto in 1979 with a B.A. in English. After university, he pursued a career as a playwright, his most notable play being Mayonnaise, which debuted in December 1980 at the Phoenix Theater in Toronto. The play went on to national production and was adapted to a TV broadcast in 1983. In the mid-1980s, Ibbitson switched over to writing young-adult fiction, including the short YA science-fiction novel, Starcrosser. He also wrote two full-length novels, 1812: Jeremy's War and The Night Hazel Came to Town. The Landing followed in 2008. Apart from his Governor-General's citation, Ibbitson has been nominated for several awards for other works, including a Governor General's Award nomination for 1812. Hazel received a nomination for the Trillium Book Award and the City of Toronto Book Award. His journalism has also been nominated for a National Newspaper Award.
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