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Jon Tattrie

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Journalist. Author of Sword & Soul, a biography of Charles R Saunders (2024), @peacebychoco and 7 other books. Editor of Atlantic Books Today.
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Why don't we know Charles R. Saunders? This author from Pittsburgh created a new fantasy genre

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By Jon Tattrie Verified
| Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Verified
In 2020, I got a message that a journalist I used to work with had gone missing. Could I find him? Years ago, Charles Saunders and I had edited a Canadian newspaper called the Halifax Daily News. That paper had gone out of business in 2008, throwing us both into chaotic lives. Now, 12 years later, he was missing. Charles was a tall, kind and occasionally hilarious night editor on the paper.
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Books | The Walrus

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By Maggie Yang, Jon Tattrie Verified
| The Walrus Magazine Verified
In both her writing and life, the two-time winner of the Giller Prize does exactly what she wants
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He Was a Legendary Newsroom Colleague. Turned Out He Had a Secret Past

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By Jon Tattrie Verified
| The Walrus Magazine Verified
The call to adventure came from a stranger in July 2020. It was a regular day in that plague year. Amid the mix of work emails came one from an address I didn’t know but with a subject line that immediately pulled me in: “Charles Saunders.” Hi Jon, I am hoping you might know or know about the writer, Charles Saunders, who lives in Dartmouth, the message opened. Reading his name conjured up strong images of the towering newspaper editor I’d worked with a decade ago.
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